Editing List of counties in Alabama (section)

==Former counties==

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!County
!Established
!Dissolved
!Named for
!Notes
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|[[Decatur County, Alabama|Decatur County]]
|December 7, 1821
|December 28, 1825
|Commodore [[Stephen Decatur]] of the [[United States Navy]].
|Created in 1822 with [[Woodville, Alabama|Woodville]] as its county seat. Abolished several years later, divided between [[Madison County, Alabama|Madison County]] and [[Jackson County, Alabama|Jackson County]].
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|Elk County<ref>{{cite book |title= A Walk Through the Past: People and Places of Florence and Lauderdale County, Alabama|last= McDonald|first= William Lindsey |year= 2003|orig-year= 1997 |publisher= Bluewater Publications |location= Killen, Alabama|isbn= 9780971994560|pages= 223–224|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HXPa7_F5c1cC|access-date=2012-05-08}}</ref>
|May 9, 1817
|January 26, 1818
|[[Elk River (Tennessee)|Elk River]]
|Established by [[Mississippi Territory]] prior to Mississippi–Alabama split; abolished prior to Alabama statehood
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