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Flomaton is an incorporated town in Escambia County in southwestern Alabama, sitting directly on the Alabama-Florida state line, with the Florida town of Century just across the border.

The town arose in 1869 at a junction of railroad lines built by the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad, and it remained an important rail junction through the first half of the twentieth century.

Before taking its present name, the community was known at various times as Reuterville, Whiting, and Pensacola Junction.

Flomaton was incorporated on May 18, 1908; its name combines Florida and Alabama, with the "-ton" for town added by the U.S. Postal Service to avoid confusion with Florala.

In the early twentieth century, Flomaton's economy was driven by the timber industry and by its position at the important railway junction.

Downtown Flomaton was struck by three major fires, in 1902, 1908, and 1911, the last of which destroyed the Louisville and Nashville Railroad depot.

The Flomaton Area Railroad Museum preserves the town's railroad heritage, and the museum building also serves as an Alabama welcome center.

As a busy rail stop, Flomaton received visits from Presidents Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, Woodrow Wilson in 1919, and Calvin Coolidge in 1930.

U.S. Highways 29 and 31 meet in Flomaton, and CSX Transportation still joins its Montgomery-Mobile line here with the line running south to Pensacola and the Florida Gulf Coast.

The 2020 census counted 1,466 residents in Flomaton, up slightly from 1,440 in 2010.