Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge is a 4,218-acre protected area along the Tombigbee River near Coffeeville in southwestern Alabama, established in 1964 on land tied to the Coffeeville Lock and Dam project. Named for the Choctaw people, it was created to support wood ducks and wintering waterfowl. Its flood-shaped landscape includes lakes, sloughs, creeks, bottomland hardwood forest, and managed croplands and moist-soil units, much of it reachable only by boat. Wildlife management emphasizes waterfowl, wetland birds, and other species, while the refuge also supports research, conservation easements, and recreation such as fishing, hunting, hiking, boating, and wildlife observation.