Fort Payne Wedding

Fort Payne is a city in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 12,938. The city is the county seat of DeKalb County.

It is home to the band Alabama, and bills itself as the "Official Sock Capital of the World."

NASCAR drivers Tim Flock, Fonty Flock, Bob Flock, and Ethel Mobley were from the town.

A magnitude-4.9 earthquake occurred here in 2003.

The site of Fort Payne was originally the important Cherokee village of Willstown which for a time was the home of the famous Cherokee Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee alphabet. During the Indian Removal during the 1830's a fort was built in the town by forces commanded by Major John Payne and used as a stockade in which to place the Cherokee until they could be removed to Oklahoma.

Fort Payne is located at 342714N, 854224W (34.453829, -85.706648)GR1.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 144.9 km (56.0 mi). 144.7 km (55.9 mi) of it is land and 0.2 km (0.1 mi) of it (0.14%) is water.