{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Decaturville, Missouri |settlement_type = Unincorporated community <!-- Images --> |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = <!-- Location --> |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = Missouri |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Camden |subdivision_type3 = Township |subdivision_name3 = Warren |established_title = Founded |established_date = 1838 |population_footnotes = |population_total =

<!-- General information --> |timezone = Central (CST) |utc_offset = -6 |timezone_DST = CDT |utc_offset_DST = -5 |elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/> |elevation_ft = |elevation_m = 323 |pushpin_map = Missouri |pushpin_label = Decaturville |pushpin_map_caption = Decaturville's position in Missouri |coordinates = {{coord|37|54|27.1|N|92|41|59.7|W|region:US_type:city|display=inline,title}}

<!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = |area_code = 479 |blank_name = GNIS feature ID |blank_info = 716778<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|716778}}</ref> |website = |footnotes = }} '''Decaturville''' is an unincorporated community in Warren Township, Camden County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Route 5 approximately seven miles south-southeast of Camdenton. The Camden-Laclede county line is less than one mile south of the community.<ref>''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p. 45 {{ISBN|0899332242}}</ref>

The community was founded in 1854 and is named after Commodore Stephen Decatur Jr., (1779 &ndash; 1820), an American naval officer notable for his heroism in actions at Tripoli, Libya in the First Barbary War, the Second Barbary War, and in the War of 1812.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcxWsmxRzVEC&pg=PA34 | title=Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion | publisher=University of Missouri Press | author=Earngey, Bill | year=1995 | pages=34| isbn=9780826210210 }}</ref>

==See also== * Decaturville crater

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