Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Collinsville, AL

Collinsville is a town in northeastern Alabama that lies mostly in DeKalb County, with a small portion extending southeast along Alabama State Route 68 into Cherokee County.

The town sits in the Little Wills Valley, between Lookout Mountain to the east and Big Ridge to the west.

The land was Cherokee territory until the Cherokee were forcibly removed after 1835, and the settlement that became Collinsville was first called Lynchburg, after the three Lynch brothers who settled there.

The town takes its name from Alfred Collins, a schoolteacher who arrived in 1839, became a merchant and innkeeper on the stagecoach route, and bought up the land where the town now stands.

Collinsville was incorporated in 1887 with a population of about 304, and its first municipal election drew 77 voters.

The 2020 census counted 2,059 residents in Collinsville living in 607 households, and by 2020 a majority of residents, about 54 percent, identified as Hispanic or Latino.

Collinsville's largest employer is a Koch Foods poultry processing plant, which employs approximately 800 people.

Every Saturday the town hosts the Collinsville Trade Day, a giant outdoor flea market that draws an estimated 10,000 visitors a week and as many as 30,000 in spring; the market grounds were annexed into the town in 2004.

The Collinsville Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Collinsville High School's Panthers fielded the first football team in DeKalb County in 1920, and the school's teams have won state championships in boys' basketball, girls' basketball, and boys' soccer.