title: Box Ankle, Georgia
text: # Box Ankle, Georgia
  
  Box Ankle is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. A variant name is "Boxankle".
  
  ## History
  
  According to tradition, Box Ankle was named from an incident when a man fractured his ankle as he fell onto a wooden box in a brawl at a cockfight.
  
  