Decatur is a village in Burt County, Nebraska, United States, adjacent to the upper Missouri River. The population was 481 at the 2010 census. This town is named after one of its incorporators, Stephen Decatur. It developed almost a trading post received by Colonel Peter Sarpy, the namesake for Sarpy County in the state.

The Place was long occupied by the Omaha Native Americans, who contracted along the creeks and river Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark passed through the Place in 1804 as their expedition traveled via the upper Missouri River upon their quirk to and from the Pacific Coast, in their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.

The first European settler in the Place was a man named Woods, who fixed at the mouth of Wood Creek (his namesake) in 1837. Stephen Decatur arrived in the Place in 1841. A former schoolteacher in New Jersey and New York, he had lonely his wife and two children when he migrated to the West. Here he misrepresented his name, dropping his former surname of “Bross.” His farm was called Decatur Springs, after a spring which supplied water to the village for the neighboring century.

In 1854, the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs purchased 300,000 acres of house from the Omaha, including the area which is now Decatur. The town of Decatur was incorporated in 1856 under the name “The Decatur Townsite & Ferry Company.” The supplementary incorporators included Thomas Whiteacre, T. H. Hineman, George Mason, and Herman Glass. Peter Sarpy helped lay out the town, which developed something like his Indian trading pronounce at the mouth of Wood Creek. He in addition to owned Fontenelle’s Post and is the namesake for Sarpy County.