Blountsville is a town in Blount County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,684.

Blount County was created by the Alabama territorial legislature upon February 6, 1818, from house ceded to the federal processing by the Creek Nation upon August 9, 1814. It was named for Gov. Willie G. Blount of Tennessee, who provided assistance to settlers in Alabama during the Creek War of 1813–14. It lies in the northeastern section of the state, generally known as the mineral region.

What became Blountsville appears upon an 1819 map as the contaminated Creek/Cherokee Native American village of “Wassausey” (meaning Bear Meat Cabin, the publicize of an Indian translator who lived there). The town was standard by Caleb Fryley and Johnny Jones in 1816 as Bear Meat Cabin. It became a popular End for westward-bound settlers who streamed into the area at the grow less of the Creek War. The say office was opened as Blountsville upon October 20, 1825, and incorporated upon December 13, 1827. It was the county chair until 1889 when the giving out was moved to Oneonta.

There were many schools in the town in the yet to be years: The Academy, Blount College and the District Agricultural School, plus the public schools. The Blount County Courthouse and jail was built in 1833 and remained there until it was moved to Oneonta. A major crossroads in to the fore Alabama, Blountsville became a Confederate depot for the cavalry. Confederate forces led by General Nathan Bedford Forrest and Union forces led by General Abel Streight skirmished briefly in the town upon May 1, 1863, and Major General Lovell H. Rousseau and his Union cavalry occupied the town in July 1864. Blount College was in the building that was originally the courthouse. It was received in 1890. The beautiful Blountsville United Methodist Church was customary in 1818 and is the oldest building in Blountsville and is nevertheless in use today. Another old building in Blountsville was next known as the Barclift House. Built in 1834 as Hendricks Tavern, it is now owned and is bodily restored by the Ortiz family.