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Decatur
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city in and county seat of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Georgia
- County
- DeKalb
- Incorporated
- December 10, 1823 ; 202 years ago ( 1823-12-10 )
- Named after
- Commodore Stephen Decatur
- Type
- Commission–Manager
- Commission
- Decatur City Commission
- Mayor
- Tony Powers
- Total
- 4.60 sq mi (11.92 km )
- Land
- 4.60 sq mi (11.91 km )
- Water
- 0.0039 sq mi (0.01 km )
- Elevation
- 1,043 ft (318 m)
- Density
- 5,422.8/sq mi (2,093.77/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Zip code s
- 30030, 30032, 30033
- Area codes
- 404 , 678 and 470
- Fips code
- 13-22052
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Encyclopedic overview
Decatur (/dəˈkeɪtər/) is a city in and the county seat of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. With a population of 24,928 in the 2020 census, the municipality is sometimes assumed to be larger since multiple ZIP Codes in unincorporated DeKalb County bear Decatur as the address.
The city is served by three MARTA rail stations (Decatur, East Lake, and Avondale). The city is located approximately five miles (eight kilometers) northeast of Downtown Atlanta and shares its western border with both the city of Atlanta (the Kirkwood and Lake Claire neighborhoods) and unincorporated DeKalb County. The Druid Hills neighborhood is to the northwest of Decatur.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Decatur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.