Albertville is a city in Marshall County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.

[6] During the American Civil War, the area around Albertville was the scene of several mid-level clashes between Union and Confederate forces.

It was named for Thomas A. Albert, an early settler who moved from Georgia and was a town leader until his death in 1876.

On viewing the wreckage, covering easily forty acres or more in the heart of town, it appears incredible that any living being could have escaped the fury of the storm and death ...[11]In 1893, the Alabama Legislature passed an act for the erection of an agricultural college in each of the state's congressional districts.

Before the New Deal, when the Tennessee Valley Authority built Guntersville Dam, flooding on the Tennessee River would frequently leave the county courthouse in Guntersville inaccessible for residents of Albertville and other areas atop Sand Mountain.

In 1919, the Alabama Legislature responded by requiring the erection of a courthouse at Albertville, in which cases arising in that part of the county would be heard.

[13] In 1950, Albertville had a population of 5,397,[14] and reclaimed the title (from Guntersville) of the largest city in the county, and has held the distinction ever since.

Albertville’s Hispanic demographic pluraity strongly protested this decision in a series of demonstrations near the mayor’s office.

[2] The city sits at an elevation of 1,060 feet (320 m) atop Sand Mountain, a plateau that in this area is about 15 miles (24 km) wide.

The majority of the city drains north to Short Creek, a tributary of the Tennessee River, while the southern part drains to Slab Creek, a west-flowing tributary of the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River.

[29] Albertville is also home to poultry plants operated by Wayne Farms,[30] Pilgrim's Pride, and Tyson Foods.

[31] In April 2012, Newman Technology, broke ground on an auto parts manufacturing facility in Albertville.

This plant will build component parts for Honda, Acura and Toyota and was expected to begin operating in early 2013.

It is a supplier of fabricated and value-added assemblies to the automotive and recreational vehicle markets with facilities current in Mansfield, Ohio, and Aiken, S.C.[citation needed] Members of the city council (2023) include:[32] Public schools are overseen by Albertville City Schools.

There are six schools in the city: When the 1992 Winter Olympics were held in Albertville, France, the citizens of its heteronymic counterpart in Alabama took full advantage of the opportunity to put their town on display.

[33] In 2008, Albertville was featured in an episode in the fifth season of the A&E television documentary series Intervention titled "Meth Mountain".

Among the featured Albertville residents was Dr. Mary Holley, an obstetrician whose methamphetamine-addicted brother committed suicide, and who founded the anti-methamphetamine group "Mothers Against Methamphetamine".

The episodes focused on the influx of Latino immigrants in the town's chicken plants and the impact this had on the community.