Boykin, also known as Gee's Bend, is an African American majority community and census-designated place in a large bend of the Alabama River in Wilcox County, Alabama. As of the 2020 census, its population was 208. The Boykin Post Office was established in the community in 1949 and remains active, servicing the 36723 ZIP code. Gee's Bend was named for Joseph Gee, an early large land owner from Halifax County, North Carolina who settled here in 1816.