| Official Name: | Choccolocco, Alabama |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place & Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | Alabama#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Choccolocco |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Alabama |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Calhoun |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 30.52 |
| Area Land Km2: | 30.16 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.35 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 11.78 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 11.65 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.14 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 2838 |
| Population Density Km2: | 94.09 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 243.69 |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation Ft: | 679 |
| Coordinates: | 33.6592°N -85.7036°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 36207[2] |
| Area Code: | 256 & 938 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 159400 |
Choccolocco is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,804.[3] It was founded in 1832.
The name Choccolocco is an anglicization of the Creek words "chahko lago" ("big shoals") or "choko rakko" ("big house"); sources vary.[4] [5]
The community gained brief notoriety in 2001 when The Daily Show aired a piece on the "Choccolocco Monster",[6] a part of local folklore concerning sightings of a mysterious creature in the area in the late 1960s. An October 2001 article in the Anniston Star newspaper revealed that the creature was, in fact, local resident Neal Williamson. As a teenager, Williamson would don his costume (consisting of a cow skull and a sheet) and gain the attention of passing cars by jumping out of the woods onto the roadside, often startling motorists.[7]
Choccolocco first appeared on the 1890 U.S. Census as a town, but did not appear again until 2010 when it was made a census-designated place (CDP).