Decatur sits in western Benton County along Arkansas Highway 59, south of Gravette and north of Siloam Springs, with Highway 102 running east toward Bentonville and west to the Oklahoma border. The town's economy has centered on poultry processing since the mid-twentieth century, when local grower Pluss Poultry consolidated into what became part of the Simmons Foods operation — a lineage that continued in 2017 when Simmons Foods built a major processing plant nearby, between Decatur and Gentry. Decatur was named an All-America City in 1954, recognition of the same civic character still associated with the town. Decatur School District serves the community, and the setting remains rural, at roughly 1,200 feet elevation in the Ozark hills. The town suits buyers seeking rural acreage and proximity to Benton County's agribusiness economy, within reach of Bentonville via Highway 102.