West Decatur, Alabama

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 within a mile 9 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• New Decatur-Albany Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1999 · 0.5 miles away
• Cotaco Opera Houselisted 1986 · 0.6 miles away
• Princess Theaterlisted 1995 · 0.6 miles away
• Bank Street Historic Districtlisted 1980 · 0.7 miles away
• Bank Street-Old Decatur Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1985 · 0.8 miles away
• Southern Railway Depotlisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away
• Col. Francis Dancy Houselisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away
• State Bank Building, Decatur Branchlisted 1972 · 0.9 miles away
• Princess Theatrelisted 2025 · 0.6 miles away

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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of West Decatur between 1995 and 2016, burning about 285 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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:

• Fairview
• Moulton Heights
• Oakworth
• Albany
• Decatur
• Simpson

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West 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

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 128758. 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.