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Dothan is a city located
in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama, situated approximately
twenty miles west of the Georgia state line and eighteen miles north of
Florida. It is the seat of Houston County, with portions extending into
nearby Dale County and Henry County. Its name derives from Genesis 37:17:
"let us go to Dothan."
Dothan is the principal city
of the Dothan Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Geneva,
Henry, and Houston counties (the small portion that lies in Dale County
is part of the Enterprise–Ozark Micropolitan Statistical Area); the combined
population for the entire Dothan metropolitan area in 2000 was 137,916.
The city serves as the main transportation and commercial hub for a significant
part of southeastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and nearby portions of
the Florida Panhandle. Since one-fourth of the U.S. peanut crop is grown
nearby, with much of it being processed in the city, Dothan calls itself
"The Peanut Capital of the World."
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