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Ohatchee is an incorporated town in western Calhoun County in northeastern Alabama, and it is part of the Anniston-Oxford metropolitan statistical area.

Ohatchee became an incorporated town in 1956.

The 2020 census counted 1,157 residents in Ohatchee, a slight decline from the 1,170 residents counted in 2010.

The 2020 census recorded 503 households and 578 housing units in the town.

Ohatchee covers about 5.9 square miles near the confluence of Tallaseehatchee Creek and Ohatchee Creek, with the town limits reaching the Coosa River along Neely Henry Lake.

During the Creek War, Andrew Jackson used the area around present-day Ohatchee to prepare for the Battle of Talladega, and the battle site is marked by a large stone marker along Alabama Highway 144 near Tallaseehatchee Creek.

Lyncoya Jackson, the Creek boy orphaned by the Battle of Tallushatchee in November 1813 and adopted and raised by Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage in Tennessee, came from the fighting around present-day Ohatchee.

Between 1863 and 1864, Alfred A. Janney built the stone Janney Furnace near Ohatchee to produce pig iron for the Confederacy during the Civil War, but the furnace never went into production.

Janney Furnace is now preserved as part of the Calhoun County park system with a Civil War memorial and a Civil War and Native American museum, and it is listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.

An EF3 tornado struck Ohatchee on March 25, 2021, killing six residents, and the town had also been devastated by a tornado during the April 27, 2011 Super Outbreak that killed four people.