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Decatur is the largest city in and the county seat of Morgan County in northern Alabama, nicknamed The River City for its position on Wheeler Lake along the Tennessee River.

Decatur began around 1820 as Rhodes Ferry Landing, a ferry crossing on the Tennessee River, and was renamed for Commodore Stephen Decatur, the naval hero killed in a duel in 1820.

The 2020 census counted 57,938 residents in Decatur living in 23,570 households, ranking it among Alabama's ten largest cities.

In the early 1830s Decatur was the eastern terminus of the Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad, the first railroad built west of the Appalachian Mountains.

During the Civil War the Union Army occupied Decatur and ordered all but four buildings destroyed; survivors still standing include the Old State Bank, the Dancy-Polk House, and the Burleson-Hinds-McEntire House, where Confederate plans for the Battle of Shiloh were mapped out.

Decatur's Old State Bank building, on the edge of downtown, is the oldest bank building in the state of Alabama.

The first wave pool in the United States was built in Decatur, and it is still in operation at the Point Mallard Aquatic Center.

Decatur has the largest Victorian-era home district in the state of Alabama.

The rival towns of Decatur and New Decatur, later renamed Albany after Albany, New York, merged in 1925 into a single city of Decatur after a campaign to replace the river ferry with a bridge.

Decatur's modern economy is anchored by manufacturing and technology employers such as United Launch Alliance, which builds rockets in the city, along with Daikin, Toray, and Vulcan Materials.