Decatur, Alabama

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• Morgan County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 14 shown

• Albany Heritage Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 1983
• Bank Street Historic Districtlisted 1980
• Bank Street-Old Decatur Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1985
• Cotaco Opera Houselisted 1986
• Col. Francis Dancy Houselisted 1980
• New Decatur-Albany Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1999
• Princess Theaterlisted 1995
• Rhea-McEntire Houselisted 1984
• Southern Railway Depotlisted 1980
• State Bank Building, Decatur Branchlisted 1972
• Westviewlisted 1982
• New Decatur-Albany Residential Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2004

Every listing in Morgan County

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

• Keller Memorial Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at U.S. Highway 31, Decaturfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Rhea-Burleson-McEntire House, 120 Sycamore Street, Decaturfederal building survey, 12 photographs
• State Bank of Alabama, Decatur Branch, Bank Street & Wilson Avenue, Decaturfederal building survey, 9 photographs

Decatur grew from 55,683 to 57,938 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1936 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Decatur between 1996 and 2016, burning about 211 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Albany
• West Decatur
• Fairview
• Oakworth
• Moulton Heights
• Bayside

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Decatur: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Decatur in 128 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 71 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 22 flash flood, 8 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Morgan County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 117185. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.