Anyone notice there are TWO Decatur's

[Guru80]

In my current PBEM game I have taken a transport cruise down around towards Chattanooga and I passed by a Decaturville, then a Decatur and there is another Decatur if you follow the river around.

If it is already known, sorry. If not I will get a screenshot when I fire the game up shortly.

[Paul Roberts]

I haven't checked the map, but "Decatur" is a very common name for towns in the US (and especially the South). I believe most states have a Decatur, but I don't know if any have two. Most of these places are probably named for Stephen Decatur, a US naval hero in the War of 1812, who died in 1820.

(I myself was born in Decatur, Georgia, which is now basically part of Atlanta.)

[Guru80]

They were just close together one east and west of chattanooga but they are in different states. I mentioned it because I didn't see the one east of Chattanooga on a couple of maps I was looking at from the era.

[PhilThib]

Are these 2 Decatur in the same state ?

[lodilefty]

From the database:

UID name CityName
498 Adams, IN Decatur
596 Meigs, TN Decatur
615 Barbour, AL Decatur
882 Decatur, IL Decatur
1034 Decatur, KS Decatur

576 Decatur, TN Decaturville

[Guru80]

Are these 2 Decatur in the same state ?

Nope, different states. I just brought it up because the one to the east/northeast of Chattanooga didn't appear on the map in Foote's first novel or another map I ran across trying to find out. I am sure it is fine and maybe both maps I looked at just omitted it or weren't real accurate.