Fort Payne is a city in and county seat of DeKalb County, in northeastern Alabama, United States. It is near Lookout Mountain. At the 2020 census, the population was 14,877.
Gault Avenue in downtown Fort Payne
The DeKalb Hotel, built in the Boom in 1889, burned 1918
Aerial view of Fort Payne
Former city hall, now police headquarters
State Route 35 is a 68.291-mile-long state highway in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. The southern terminus of the highway is at its intersection with SR 9 in rural Cherokee County
Comer Bridge (1930) carrying the southbound lanes of SR 35 over the Tennessee River at Scottsboro