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Huntsville is a city in Madison and Limestone Counties in the U.S. state of Alabama, and the county seat of Madison County.Huntsville is the largest city in northern Alabama in a region of a half-million people, with the city proper having 171,327 residents (2007 estimate).Started with a single cabin in 1805, the city was incorporated six years later as Twickenham. However, it was renamed "Huntsville" (after first settler John Hunt) during the War of 1812, and it has grown across nearby hills and along the Tennessee River, adding textile mills, then munitions factories, to become a major city, hosting the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and Redstone Arsenal.

Huntsville is the largest core city of the four-county Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.

As of the 2000 census, the population of Huntsville was 158,216. As of 2007, the estimated population of the Huntsville Metropolitan Area is 386,632, with the city proper having 171,327 residents.Huntsville and its cross-river neighbor Decatur combine their separate metro areas to form the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area, which in 2007 had a total population of 535,911. Huntsville, Alabama ( top center ), near the Tennessee border, is north of Birmingham and northeast of Decatur, across the Tennessee River flowing northwest.  find out more at wikipedia©

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