Dothan, Alabama Dothan City of Dothan Downtown Dothan Downtown Dothan Location in Houston County and the state of Alabama Location in Houston County and the state of Alabama Dothan is positioned in the US Dothan - Dothan Dothan / do n/ is a town/city in the southeastern corner of the U.S.
State of Alabama, situated approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of the Georgia state line and 16 miles (26 km) north of Florida.
Dothan is the principal town/city of the Dothan, Alabama urbane area, which encompasses all of Geneva, Henry, and Houston counties; the small portion that lies in Dale County is part of the Ozark Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The combined populace for the entire Dothan urbane region in 2010 was 145,639. The town/city serves as the chief transportation and commercial core for a momentous part of southeastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and close-by portions of the Florida Panhandle.
Peanut crop is produced nearby, with much of it being processed in the city, Dothan is sometimes referred to as "The Peanut Capital of the World".
Dothan also hosts the annual National Peanut Festival at the dedicated "Peanut Festival Fairgrounds". The region that is now Dothan was inhabited for thousands of years by successive cultures of indigenous citizens s.
Between 1763 and 1783, the region that is now Dothan was part of the colony of British West Florida. European-American pioneer moving through the region during the late 18th and early 19th centuries identified the Indian spring, naming it "Poplar Head".
On November 11, 1885, the locals voted to incorporate, naming their new town/city "Dothan" after discovering that "Poplar Head" was already registered with the U.S.
On October 12, 1889, Dothan was the scene of a deadly altercation resulting from a dispute over a tax levied on all wagons operating inside town/city limits.
In 1893, Dothan secured a stop on the first barns to be assembled in the region.
Dothan also sought out industrialized development, with textile and agricultural concerns being joined by manufacturing plants for the Sony, Michelin, and General Electric corporations in the 20th century.
Toward downtown Dothan Originally part of Henry County, Dothan became the governmental center of county of the newly formed Houston County on May 9, 1903.
Troy University Dothan Campus was established in 1961 and is positioned in the northwestern part of the city.
Farley Nuclear Generating Station near the town/city between 1970 and 1981; this 1,776-megawatt facility presently generates approximately 13,000 GW-h per year. In the late 1970s, factories were constructed in the town/city by Sony and Michelin corporations.
In 2010 Sony announced its closure of its Dothan plant.
Pemco Aviation declared bankruptcy in March 2012 and in May that year announced the method of its Dothan facility.
Dothan is positioned in northwestern Houston County in southeastern Alabama.
The town/city limits extend north into Henry County and northwest into Dale County.
Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 89.7 square miles (232.4 km2), of which 89.4 square miles (231.5 km2) is territory and 0.31 square miles (0.8 km2), or 0.36%, is water. Ross Clark Circle on Dothan's east side In addition to styling itself "The Peanut Capital of the World", Dothan is the self-proclaimed "Hub of the Wiregrass".
Fort Rucker, the "Home of Army Aviation", is positioned about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of the city, just north of the town/city of Daleville.
Dothan has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa).
Snowfall is an extremely rare event a two-inch snow flurry occurs about once every ten years, which results annuallyly average of 0.2 inches (5.1 mm). Tornadoes are a incessant threat amid the spring, summer and fall; the city's tornado activeness is slightly below the Alabama state average, but 79% above the U.S.
Climate data for Dothan, Alabama (Dothan Regional Airport), 1981 2010 normals The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 63.1% White, 32.5% Black or African American, 0.4% Native American, 1.1% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander American, 1.1% from other competitions, and 1.8% from two or more competitions.
Houston County Courthouse in Dothan Dothan is governed by a mayor and town/city council (called the "Board of Commissioners"), with a town/city manager working to manage town/city affairs. The town/city is divided into six council districts, with one commissioner propel from each single-member precinct to a four-year term.
Members of the commission serve part-time, and are responsible for drafting all town/city ordinances and policies, and appropriation of town/city funds.
Dothan's mayor is propel at-large for four years, and serves as a member of the Board of Commissioners.
The town/city manager implements the board's policies and manage the city's day-to-day operations, including hiring, managing and firing the heads of town/city government departments.
A total of 999 full-time and 215 part-time employees work for the various town/city agencies in Dothan, including police, fire, clerical, judicial, finance, enhance works and utilities. Dothan is positioned in Alabama's 2nd congressional district; its current representative (as of 2011) is Martha Roby (R).
The town/city is divided among three different state senate districts (28, 29 and 31) and four state representative districts (85, 86, 87 and 93). The majority of K-12 students in Dothan and Houston County attend Dothan City Schools, or Houston County Schools. Others attend small-town private schools such as Houston Academy, Providence Christian School, Northside Methodist Academy, Emmanuel Christian School, or Westgate Christian School. Institutes of college studies include Fortis College, Troy University Dothan Campus, Wallace Community College, Bethany Divinity College & Seminary, and the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dothan is home to the "Yes We Can! Dothan" education movement, which is a community-based organization working to advancement Dothan's enhance schools.
This boss began through the accomplishments of Dothan people Morris Slingluff, Judge Rose Gordon, Thomas Harrison, Lucky Martin, Tom Ziegenfelder, Matt Parker, Twyla Williams, Libby Krietemeyer, Cheryl Gibson and Lavonda Gosselin.
Dothan's airport, the Dothan Regional Airport, is presently (2015) served by Express - Jet, a subsidiary of Sky - West, Inc.
Unlike many municipal airports in the U.S., the Dothan airport is entirely self-supporting, operating without any tax-generated funding.
Presently, Dothan is served by three U.S.
US 84 leads southeast 54 miles (87 km) to Bainbridge, Georgia, and west 30 miles (48 km) to Enterprise, Alabama; US 231 leads northwest 55 miles (89 km) to Troy, Alabama, and south 83 miles (134 km) to Panama City, Florida; and US 431 leads north 51 miles (82 km) to Eufaula, Alabama and 84 miles southwest of Albany, Georgia.
Although passenger trains no longer operate through Dothan, Greyhound Bus Lines maintains a station in town. While Dothan does not have regularly scheduled enhance transportation, it offers dial-a-ride service through its non-profit Wiregrass Transit Authority. The town/city of Dothan has hosted a number of barns s throughout its existence, beginning in 1893 with the Alabama Midland Railroad, later the Atlantic Coast Line, linking the town/city to Montgomery and Savannah.
The Chattahoochee & Gulf, later the Central of Georgia, reached Dothan as part of a route from Columbia, Alabama, to Lockhart, Florida.
Additionally, the Bay Line Railroad assembled a line connecting Dothan to Panama City, Florida, in 1908.
There were also a number of logging barns s and other shortlines that existed near Dothan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Bay Line and Central of Georgia barns s jointly directed passenger service from Atlanta to Panama City via Dothan until 1957.
Dothan was also a stop for two Seaboard Coast Line small-town passenger trains from Waycross, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama, until 1971.
And finally, Dothan was a stop for the South Wind passenger train, later Amtrak's Floridian, with service ending in 1979.
The Floridian was the last passenger train to operate through Dothan.
The Central of Georgia spun off a portion of their line from Hartford to Dothan to the Hartford & Slocomb barns in 1953, which was later abandoned from Hartford to Taylors in 1992.
In 2003, Central of Georgia successor Norfolk Southern sold their route from Dothan to Hilton, Georgia, to the Chattahoochee and Gulf shortline, leaving CSXT as the last Class I barns operating through Dothan.
Dothan is the home of two hospitals: Southeast Alabama Medical Center is the city's only enhance hospital, and is positioned on the city's southeastern side.
Flowers Hospital is a private hospital situated on Dothan's side.
On May 18, 2010, Southeast Alabama Medical Center announced it would construct Alabama's first college of osteopathic medicine, to help fill the state's shortage of an estimated 400 major care physicians.
The biggest Christian denomination in Dothan is the Southern Baptist church. There are also Churches of Christ, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, AME, Freewill Baptist, Episcopal, United Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, Seventh-day Adventist and various Evangelical churches serving Dothan's Protestant community.
Columba Catholic Church serves Dothan's Roman Catholics. Dothan hosts a Reform Judaism Jewish church, Temple Emanu-El, which became nationally famous in 2008 when the congregation offered Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to Dothan to build up the community. The town/city is also home to two mosques, an LDS church, a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, and an Antiochian Eastern Orthodox church. Dothan is served by one daily newspaper, the Dothan Eagle, one weekly newspaper, the Dothan Progress, and a blog website Rickey Stokes News. It is host to four tv stations, WRGX-LD 23 (NBC), WDFX 34 (FOX), WDHN 18 (ABC) and the earliest tv station in southeastern Alabama, WTVY 4 (CBS/My - Network - TV/CW).
The town/city is also served by a several airways broadcasts; formats include classical, Christian, rock, country, rap, urban contemporary, talk radio and sports. Dothan Magazine offers a bi-monthly, citizens -focused viewpoint of the Dothan region while also keeping readers up to date on the latest improve affairs, trends and issues.
Archived issues of Dothan Magazine are available online. Dothan hosted minor league baseball squads from 1915 to 1917 (Al-FL-GA League and Dixie League) and again from 1936 through 1962 (AL-FL League, GA-FL League and AL State League).
The town/city served host to the Ultimate Fighting Championship on February 7, 1997, at the Dothan Civic Center Arena. Dothan was chose as one of eleven Alabama sites for a course on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. In 2007 10, the town/city was recognized as part of the "Playful City USA" initiative by Ka - BOOM!, created to honor metros/cities that ensure that their kids have great places to play. Dothan has a diverse economy.
The citizens of Dothan appreciate one of the lowest costs of living in the country, mostly due to the large dependence on town/city revenue from the revenue tax. Dothan receives hundreds of thousands of visitors every year from the northern U.S.
According to the city's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 2 Dothan City & Houston County Schools 1,973 4 City of Dothan 927 Dothan According to 2012 statistics released by the FBI, Dothan has a violent crime rate far below the nationwide average, with only four homicides reported in the town/city that year.
This includes bands from high schools around Dothan, pageant winners, and more.
Many citizens line the downtown streets of Dothan to jubilate the parade.
Dothan is also home to two experienced barbecue competitions.
Porktober - Que, an Oktoberfest and Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) sanctioned event, is held the last weekend of September in Dothan.
The exhibition was organized in 1989 by private people and the City of Dothan; it is directed by the Wiregrass Museum of Art, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization. Landmark Park is a 135-acre (55 ha) park assembled to preserve the natural and cultural tradition of southeast Alabama's Wiregrass Region and serves as Alabama's official exhibition of agriculture.
Southeast Alabama Community Theater offers live entertainment and theatrical productions for the Dothan community. It represents the Bible verse, "For I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan" (Genesis 37:17), on which the town based its name. The Dothan Opera House, assembled in 1915, features theatre performances, concerts, symphonies, ballet performances, and other cultural affairs.
"Music by Moonlight" offers four no-charge concerts per year at Dothan's Landmark Park, featuring classical, jazz, Celtic and bluegrass musicians, among others. Patti Rutland Jazz is a experienced intact jazz and hip-hop dance business positioned in Dothan.
This business produces two full-length jazz and hip-hop theatrical dance productions annual (one in late February and one in early June) at their home in the Cultural Arts Center, as well as at Dothan's historical landmark Opera House.
This mutually beneficial program hopes to make Dothan a destination for, and a origin of, future experienced dance talent in the United States. Dothan Area Botanical Gardens The Dothan Area Botanical Gardens include 50 acres (20 ha) of cultivated plant nurseries and undeveloped, wooded landscapes.
The "World's Smallest City Block" is positioned behind the Dothan City Civic Center between North Appletree Street, North College Street, and East Troy Street. Bill Baxley, former Alabama Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor, born and raised in Dothan Johnny Mack Brown, born and raised in Dothan, All-American college football player at the University of Alabama and Hollywood film actor Matt Cain, starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, born in Dothan Gardner Dickinson, a 7-time PGA Tour champion golfer, born in Dothan William Gray Espy, actor (the initial Snapper Foster of The Young and the Restless), born in Dothan Richmond Flowers, Sr., former Attorney General of Alabama and opponent of segregation, born and raised in Dothan Artis Gilmore, Jacksonville University center and later Most Valuable Player of the American Basketball Association, attended middle and high school in Dothan 1 hit "Honey", interval up in Dothan and graduated from Dothan High School Robert Reynolds "Bob" Jones, Sr., evangelist and founder of Bob Jones University, reared in the Brannon Stand improve west of Dothan, 1884 1899 Dale Kennington, intact artist working in the style of New American Realism, lives in Dothan Charles Marsh, Dothan High School, class of 1976; award-winning author and professor of theological studies at the University of Virginia Robert Edwin Russ, founder of Ruston, Louisiana, lived near Dothan in his early years Jamie Thomas, creator of two skateboard companies and a shoe company, interval up in Dothan Heather Whitestone, former Miss America, born and raised in Dothan Dothan has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Dothan city, Alabama".
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