USA TODAY cited the Decatur City School System after its students achieved the top 10 percent in test scores

Decatur City Schools is the only school system north of Birmingham to participate in the internationally recognized I.B. Diploma Programme, and it is available in both  High Schools.

The Decatur City Schools System has earned the Alabama Attorney General's Safe Schools Award more than any other school system in the state of Alabama.

Two Morgan County school systems earn national recognition with SchoolMatch's "What Parents Want" Award. Decatur City Schools receives award for 13th straight year and Hartselle City Schools receives award for 12th straight year.

The City of Hartselle was identified in the book The 50 Best Small Southern Towns, by Gerald W. Sweitzer and Kathy M. Fields

The Best 100 Small Towns in America, by Norman Crampton cited Hartselle as "very big on three things:  school, sports and religion (not necessarily in that order)."

Rand McNally's 2006 The Best of the Road names Hartselle as one of the greatest places to visit along a route.

The Veterinary Regional Referral Hospital P.C. located in Decatur, Alabama, is the only referral veterinary hospital in the Southeast (other than Auburn) for traumatic injuries to small animals for general, orthopedic and neurological surgery.

Morgan County earns Top Spot in State with New and Expanding Capital Investment Announcements totaling over $400 million in 2004

Decatur-Morgan County named "Small Market of the Year" by Southern Business & Development Magazine, Spring 2005

18 Fortune 500 Companies are currently located in Morgan County