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The headwaters of the river are in Bloom Township, Fairfield County, Ohio. The river then flows southeastwardly through Fairfield County, then through Hocking County, Ohio, through the Hocking Hills region, then through Athens County, Ohio to the Ohio River. Parts of Perry, Morgan, and Washington Counties are also within the watershed.

The name originally derives from a Native American name something like Hokhokken or Hokhochen, meaning "bottle-shaped" or "gourd-shaped", referring to the configuration of the river at Logan. The river was known as the Hockhocking River until about a century ago, when it became shortened to Hocking.

The Hocking canalCanal du Midi in Toulouse, France Canals are man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans. They are used for transportation, often by barges or narrowboats on smaller canals, and by ships on ship canals that connect to the ocea once linked Athens with points upriver, but was destroyed by flooding and never rebuilt.

Major tributaries to the Hocking include (downriver to upriver) Federal Creek, Margaret Creek, Sunday Creek and Monday Creek.

See also

• List of Ohio riversThis is a list of rivers in the state of Ohio in the United States Ashtabula River Auglaize River Bad River Blanchard River Cuyahoga River Duck Creek Flatrock River Great Miami River (Miami River) Grand River Huron River Little Auglaize River Little Miami