Decatur
Decatur is the largest city in and the county seat of Morgan County in the U.S. state of Alabama. Nicknamed "The River City," it is located in northern Alabama on the banks of Wheeler Lake along the Tennessee River.
- Type: City with 57,900 residents
- Description: city in Morgan and Limestone counties, Alabama, United States
- Also known as: “D-rock”, “Decatur (Alabama)”, “Decatur, AL”, “Decatur, Alabama”, “The Heart of the Valley”, “The River City”, “Дикејтур”, “Дікейтер”, “دیکیتر، الاباما”, and “迪凱特”
- Postal codes: 35601-35603, 35609, and 35699
- Neighbors: Huntsville
Places of Interest
Highlights: Princess Theatre and Decatur station.
Princess Theatre
Theater building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moulton Heights and Albany.
Decatur
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Morgan County, Mountains, Alabama, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.606° or 34° 36′ 22″ north
Longitude
-86.9838° or 86° 59′ 2″ west
Population
57,900
Elevation
561 feet (171 metres)
IATA airport code
DCU
UN/LOCODE
US DCU
Open location code
866MJ248+CF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Decatur” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديكاتور”
- Armenian: “Դեկատուր”
- Azerbaijani: “Dekeyter”
- Basque: “Decatur”
- Catalan: “Decatur”
- Cebuano: “Decatur”
- Central Kurdish: “دیکەیتەر، ئەلاباما”
- Chechen: “Декейтер”
- Chinese: “迪凯特”
- Czech: “Decatur”
- Dagbani: “Decatur”
- Danish: “Decatur”
- Dimli (individual language): “Decatur, Alabama”
- Dimli (individual language): “Decatur”
- Dutch: “Decatur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديكاتور”
- Finnish: “Decatur”
- French: “Decatur”
- German: “Decatur”
- Gilaki: “دکیتر”
- Haitian: “Decatur”
- Hebrew: “דיקייטר”
- Hungarian: “Decatur”
- Ido: “Decatur, Alabama”
- Ido: “decatur”
- Ido: “Decatur”
- Irish: “Decatur, Alabama”
- Irish: “Decatur”
- Italian: “Decatur”
- Japanese: “ディケーター”
- Korean: “디케이터”
- Ladin: “Decatur”
- Latvian: “Dikeitura”
- Lithuanian: “Dekeiteris”
- Malagasy: “Decatur, Alabama”
- Malagasy: “Decatur”
- Mazanderani: “دکیتر”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Decatur”
- Nepali: “डिकेटर,अलाबामा”
- Nepali: “डिकेटर”
- Newari: “डेकाटर, अलाबामा”
- Newari: “डेकाटर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Decatur”
- Norwegian: “Decatur”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Decatur”
- Persian: “دکیتر”
- Persian: “دیکیتر، آلاباما”
- Persian: “دیکیتر”
- Polish: “Decatur”
- Portuguese: “Decatur”
- Romanian: “Decatur, Alabama”
- Romanian: “Decatur”
- Russian: “Декейтер”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Decatur”
- Serbian: “Декејтур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Decatur, Alabama”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Decatur”
- Silesian: “Decatur”
- Slovak: “Decatur”
- Slovenian: “Decatur”
- South Azerbaijani: “دیکیتر، آلاباما”
- Spanish: “Decatur”
- Swahili: “Decatur, Alabama”
- Swahili: “Decatur”
- Swedish: “Decatur, Alabama”
- Swedish: “Decatur”
- Tagalog: “Decatur, Alabama”
- Tagalog: “Decatur”
- Talysh: “Dekejter”
- Tatar: “Декейтер (Алабама)”
- Tatar: “Декейтер”
- Turkish: “Decatur, Alabama”
- Turkish: “Decatur”
- Ukrainian: “Декейтер”
- Urdu: “ڈیکیٹر، الاباما”
- Urdu: “ڈیکیٹر”
- Uzbek: “Decatur”
- Vietnamese: “Decatur, Alabama”
- Vietnamese: “Decatur”
- Volapük: “Decatur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Decatur, Alabama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Decatur”
- Welsh: “Burningtree Mountain”
- Welsh: “Decatur, Alabama”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: River Junction and West Decatur.
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