Īs of 2017, the mayor was Mark Saliba and the city manager was Mike West. A total of 999 full-time and 215 part-time employees work for Dothan's city agencies, including police, fire, clerical, judicial, finance, public works and utilities. The city manager implements the board's policies and manages the city's day-to-day operations, including hiring, managing and firing the heads of city government departments. Dothan's mayor is elected at-large for four years and serves as a member of the board of commissioners. Members of the commission serve part-time and are responsible for drafting all city ordinances and policies and appropriation of city funds. The city is divided into six council districts, with one commissioner elected from each single-member district to a four-year term. 2020 census Dothan racial composition RaceĪs of the 2020 United States census, there were 71,072 people, 27,103 households, and 16,607 families residing in the city.ĭothan is governed by a mayor and city council (called the "board of commissioners"), with a city manager employed to manage city affairs. They descended from members of the Cherokee and Creek peoples who occupied this area and resisted removal to Indian Territory in the 1830s. The state-recognized Cher-O-Creek Intra Tribal Indians were in Dothan. Ĭlimate data for Dothan, Alabama ( Dothan Regional Airport) 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1965–presentĭemographics Historical population
peanut crop is harvested within 75 miles (121 km) of Dothan. It became a hub for the production and transport of peanuts and peanut-related products. Expansion and growth įarmers turned to peanut production, which was successful and brought financial gain to the city. Appeals to the Alabama Supreme Court resulted in a new trial, and Domingus was acquitted. Chief of Police Tobe Domingus was found guilty of murder and sentenced to ten years in prison. The arrest of some of the alliance's men led to a riot that left two men dead and others seriously wounded. Local farmers opposed the levy and united in a body called the "Farmers Alliance". On October 12, 1889, Dothan was the scene of a deadly altercation resulting from a dispute over a tax levied on wagons operating within city limits. post office for a town in northern Alabama. On November 11, 1885, the citizens voted to incorporate, naming their new city Dothan at the suggestion of a local clergyman after discovering that "Poplar Head" was already registered with the U.S. After the war, a local Pony Express route was founded together with other developments during the Reconstruction Era, the town began to grow. It was all but abandoned by the time of the Civil War. Their settlement, named Poplar Head after the spring, failed to thrive. The first permanent white settlers consisted of nine families who moved into the area during the early 1830s to harvest the abundant timber.
īetween 17, the region that is now Dothan was part of the colony of British West Florida. It also hosts the annual National Peanut Festival at the Peanut Festival Fairgrounds. peanut crop is produced nearby, much of it processed in the city, Dothan is known as "The Peanut Capital of the World". Since approximately one-fourth of the U.S. The city is the main transportation and commercial hub for a significant part of southeastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and nearby portions of the Florida Panhandle. The combined population of the entire Dothan metropolitan area in 2010 was 145,639. Together they form the Wiregrass region, of which Dothan is the Alabama portion's largest city. Coffee County and its Enterprise micropolitan area was originally combined as a statistical area with both Dothan and Ozark as well, but is now split off as its own statistical area by the US Census Bureau. Together they form the Dothan-Ozark Combined Statistical Area. ĭothan is the principal city of the Dothan, Alabama metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Geneva, Henry, and Houston counties the small portion in Dale County is part of the Ozark Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is named after the biblical city where Joseph's brothers threw him into a cistern and sold him into slavery in Egypt. It is near the state's southeastern corner, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Georgia and 16 miles (26 km) north of Florida. It is Alabama's eighth-largest city, with a population of 71,072 at the 2020 census. Dothan ( / ˈ d oʊ θ ən/ DOH-thən ) is a city in Dale, Henry, and Houston counties and the Houston county seat in the U.S.
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