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Decatur

Decatur is the largest city in and the county seat of in the U.S. state of . Nicknamed "The River City," it is located in northern Alabama on the banks of along the .
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  • Type: City with 57,900 residents
  • Description: city in Morgan and Limestone counties, Alabama, United States
  • Also known as: “Decatur, AL”, “Decatur, Alabama”, and “The River City”
  • Postal codes: 35601-35603, 35609, and 35699
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Princess Theatre and Decatur station.

Theater building
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The is a 677-seat performing arts venue in Decatur, Alabama. The art deco-style building was originally built in 1887 as a livery stable.

Museum
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is a former train station in Decatur, Alabama. The depot was built in 1904–05 along the Southern Railway line. Decatur had become a transportation hub of North Alabama by the 1870s, with its connections to the , the east–west Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad, and the north–south Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

Historic building
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The State Bank Building, Decatur Branch, commonly known as the , is a historic Jeffersonian-style bank building in Decatur, Alabama, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moulton Heights and Albany.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community suburb of Decatur in , , United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area, as well as the Decatur Metropolitan Area.

Hamlet
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, Alabama, also known as New Decatur, Alabama, was a city in , , United States, situated immediately to the southeast of the city of Decatur near the .

Hamlet
is a former town and now a neighborhood within the city of Decatur in , . It is about 3 miles south from downtown Decatur, centered on the junction of Danville Road and Carridale Street.

Decatur

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
United Nations Location Code
US DCU
Open location code
866MJ248+CF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153534741
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4058553
Wiki­data ID
Q79750
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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: “Decatur”
  • Chinese: “迪凯特”
  • Chinese: “迪凱特”
  • Czech: “Decatur”
  • Dagbani: “Decatur”
  • Danish: “Decatur”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Decatur, Alabama”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Decatur”
  • Dutch: “Decatur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديكاتور”
  • Finnish: “Decatur”
  • French: “Decatur”
  • French: “The River City”
  • German: “D-rock”
  • German: “Decatur”
  • German: “The Heart of the Valley”
  • German: “The River City”
  • Gilaki: “دکیتر”
  • Haitian: “Decatur”
  • Hebrew: “דיקייטר”
  • Hungarian: “Decatur”
  • Ido: “Decatur, Alabama”
  • Ido: “decatur”
  • Ido: “Decatur”
  • Irish: “Decatur, Alabama”
  • Irish: “Decatur”
  • Italian: “Decatur”
  • Japanese: “アラバマ州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، الاباما”
  • Persian: “دیکیتر”
  • Polish: “Decatur”
  • Portuguese: “Decatur”
  • Romanian: “Decatur, Alabama”
  • Romanian: “Decatur”
  • Russian: “Декейтер”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Decatur”
  • Serbian: “Decatur”
  • Serbian: “Декејтур”
  • Serbian: “Дикејтур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Decatur, Alabama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Decatur”
  • Silesian: “Decatur”
  • Slovak: “Decatur”
  • Slovenian: “Decatur”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دیکیتر، آلاباما”
  • Spanish: “Decatur (Alabama)”
  • 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”
  • Ukrainian: “Дікейтер”
  • 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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