Facts About Dothan
- Dothan is the eighth-largest city in Alabama by population with an estimated population of 71,072 and the fifth-largest by Total Area.
- Dothan is a city in the county seat of Houston County.
- Dothan is named after the biblical city where Joseph’s brothers threw him into a cistern and sold him into slavery in Egypt.
- Dothan is known as “The Peanut Capital of the World”, and hosts the annual National Peanut Festival at the Peanut Festival Fairgrounds.
- Dothan was officially Incorporated on the 10th of November 1885.
- Dothan was initially established in 1885 and was named “Poplar head”, as they felt the sandy soil common to this region would be unsuitable for farming and moved on.
- Dothan has an area of 89.7 square miles, of which 89.4 square miles is land and 0.31 square miles is water.
- Dothan hosted minor league baseball teams from 1915 to 1917, with the Dothan team, and from 1936 to 1962.
- Dothan is twinned with the following sister cities Sakado, Japan since 1988 and Alajuela, Costa Rica, since 1989.
- The “World’s Smallest City Block” is behind the Dothan City Civic Center between North Appletree Street, North College Street, and East Troy Street.
