Police Protection
Provided by each municipality.

Fire Protection
Provided by each municipality or by a volunteer fire department. DeKalb County operates a 911 emergency system.

Medical Services
DeKalb County is served by the 134-bed, acute-care Baptist DeKalb medical center, located in Fort Payne.

A county ambulance service provides emergency care and most fire departments and volunteer fire departments have paramedics on staff.

Hazardous Materials
The City of Fort Payne Fire Department operates a county-wide hazardous materials unit.

Top: Grace Presbyterian Church, Fort Payne; bottom: Woods Subdivision, Fort Payne
 
 

COUNTY GOVERNMENT - COMMISSION
President Sid Holcomb
Suite 200
111 Grand Avenue S.W.
Fort Payne, AL 35967

COMMISSIONERS:
Dewitt Jackson
Ricky Harcrow
Ed Nix
Ronnie Osborn

MEDIA
Newspapers and Publications
Weekly Post
Times Journal, Daily (except Sat, Sun & Mon.)
Gadsden Times, Daily

Radio
WFPA, local AM
WQRX, local AM
WZOB, local AM
WQSB, Albertville FM

Television
Nearby cities with stations include: Birmingham, Huntsville,
Gadsden and Chattanooga, TN.

Private companies provide cable service in most areas
of the county.

DeKalb County civic organizations include:  

  • American Legion
  • B & P Women's Club
  • Church Circles
  • Civitan
  • Garden Clubs
  • Jaycees
  • Kiwanis
  • Masonic
  • Optimist
  • Rotary
  • Shriners
  • VFW

Scenic neighborhoods and quiet country roads offer excellent places to move in and settle down. DeKalb County boasts twelve real estate companies.

More than 200 houses of worship of various denominations and faiths dot the horizon in DeKalb County, including those of:

  • Assembly of God
  • Baptist
  • Catholic
  • Christian
  • Church of Christ
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
  • Church of God
  • Episcopal
  • Jehovah's Witness
  • Jewish
  • Holiness
  • Lutheran
  • Methodist
  • Missionary
  • Nazarene
  • Non-Denominational
  • Pentecostal
  • Presbyterian
  • Wesleyan