DECATUR, a city of northern Alabama, U.S.A., on the Tennessee river, 75m. N. of Birmingham, served by the Louisville and Nashville and the Southern railways ; the county seat of Mor gan county. It was formed in 1927 by the consolidation of Albany, formerly called New Decatur (pop. 7,652 in 1920) and Decatur (pop. 4,752 in 1920), and its population was in 193o by the Federal census. The city has many important manufacturing industries, including a large cotton-mill, steel works, lumber-mills and wood-working plants, cotton gins and compresses, cotton-seed oil mills, silk and hosiery factories, tanneries, iron foundries and railroad shops.