Smuteye or Smut Eye is an unincorporated community in Bullock County, Alabama, United States, located northeast of Perote.

Smuteye is located in ZIP code 36061, but residents now use a mailing address in Banks: 36005.

According to one account, the community received its name when the local men would spend all day socializing at its blacksmith shop and return home covered in soot.

[3] The last three chapters of Percival Everett's novel, I Am Not Sidney Poitier are set in Smuteye.

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