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Decherd is a city in Franklin County, Tennessee, immediately adjacent to Winchester, the county seat.

The city is named for Peter Decherd, who came to the area in 1831 from Franklin County, Virginia, established the Hundred Oaks plantation near Winchester, and in the 1850s granted right-of-way across property he owned to the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.

Decherd was first incorporated by the Tennessee General Assembly on February 14, 1856.

After the Civil War, Decherd was incorporated again on January 30, 1868; it went unincorporated in 1885 to avoid application of the "Four Mile Law," which permitted liquor sales within four miles of schools in incorporated communities, and it was chartered once again on April 22, 1901.

A violent F4 tornado heavily damaged the northern part of Decherd on February 13, 1952.

The 2020 census counted 2,379 people in Decherd, nearly unchanged from 2,361 in the 2010 census.

The 2020 census counted 1,026 households in Decherd and 1,142 housing units, of which 10.2 percent were vacant.

Decherd is home to Nissan's Powertrain Assembly Plant, which launched in 1997 and produces about 1.4 million engines a year for Nissan cars, SUVs, and trucks with more than 1,600 employees; a second plant on the same property, producing engines for Infiniti and Daimler, launched in 2014.

The Haynes House in Decherd is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the historic Asia School is also located in the city.

Decherd covers about 4.8 square miles at an elevation of 961 feet, and a small part of its area is water belonging to Tims Ford Lake.