Sparrowhawk is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States.

[5] The older name of the community was given for Captain Archibald Scraper of the 2nd Regiment, Indian Home Guard.

Sparrowhawk is located in eastern Cherokee County along a large bend on the west side of the Illinois River.

Much of the community is on top of Sparrow Hawk Mountain, a 1,080-foot-elevation (330 m) plateau that rises 360 feet (110 m) above the river.

The CDP is bordered on the west by Oklahoma State Highway 10, which leads 6 miles (10 km) southwest to Tahlequah, the Cherokee County seat, and north 23 miles (37 km) to the town of Kansas.