Hinton is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada. It is located in Yellowhead County, 81 kilometres (50 mi) northeast of Jasper and about 284 kilometres (176 mi) west of Alberta’s capital city, Edmonton, at the intersection of Yellowhead and Bighorn Highway, in the Athabasca River valley.
The Town of Hinton was named for William D. Hinton, Vice President and General Manager of The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The community was officially recognized in 1928.The exact location of the Town of Hinton has changed thirteen times in its history, its sites scattered along a line some twelve kilometres (7.5 mi) in length.

The original location was along Hardisty Creek, where an aboriginal group from the Jasper area had left members stricken with smallpox while the rest of the group travelled to Lac Ste. Anne to find medical aid for the smallpox epidemic which was ravaging the indigenous population in Alberta. The area was thus dubbed Cache Picote (Smallpox Camp) in 1870.

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