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Elkmont is an incorporated town in north-central Limestone County in northern Alabama, a few miles south of the Tennessee state line and within the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.

The community began in 1859 as Fort Hampton, a stop on the newly built Tennessee and Alabama Central Railroad.

The name was changed to Elkmont in 1866, after the elk that once flourished in the area near the Elk River.

Elkmont was incorporated on March 28, 1873.

The Battle of Sulphur Creek Trestle was fought just south of town in September 1864 during the Civil War, and the Sulphur Trestle Fort site is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad built the Elkmont depot in 1887; the tracks have since been removed, but the wooden depot survives as the town's community center.

The old rail bed through Elkmont is now the Richard Martin Trail, a rails-to-trails walking, biking and horseback-riding path, and the historic depot serves as a trailhead at its midpoint.

Elkmont recorded a population of 411 in the 2020 census, down slightly from 434 in 2010.

In the 2000 census, Elkmont had 470 residents living in 172 households within its roughly 1.65 square miles.

In 1912 the town built Limestone County High School, the first public high school in Limestone County; today Elkmont High School serves local students in the Limestone County School District.