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Dothan is a city in and the county seat of Houston County in southeastern Alabama, close to both the Georgia and Florida state lines.

Dothan was first settled around a spring known as Poplar Head, and residents voted to incorporate on November 11, 1885, renaming the town Dothan after the biblical city because the name Poplar Head was already registered with the post office.

Dothan became the county seat in 1903 when Houston County was newly created, and it remains the hub of Alabama's Wiregrass region.

The 2020 census counted 71,072 residents in Dothan living in 30,115 households, making it Alabama's eighth-largest city and its fifth largest by land area.

Dothan is known as the Peanut Capital of the World because roughly one-fourth of the entire United States peanut crop is harvested within 75 miles of the city, much of it processed in Dothan.

Dothan hosts the annual National Peanut Festival, held each fall at the National Peanut Festival Fairgrounds.

Dothan's first railroad arrived in 1893, and after the boll weevil devastated Wiregrass cotton in the early 1900s, local farmers turned to peanuts and built the city's economy around them.

Higher education in Dothan includes Wallace Community College, founded in 1969, and Troy University's Dothan campus, established in 1961.

The Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Generating Station, built by the Southern Company near Dothan between 1970 and 1981, is one of Alabama's major power plants.

Porter Hardware operated in downtown Dothan from 1889 to 2014 as the oldest hardware store in Alabama, and it reopened in 2018 as a museum.