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Samson is a city in western Geneva County, in the southeastern corner of Alabama near the Florida line, and is part of the Dothan metropolitan area.

The 2020 census counted 1,874 residents in Samson, down from 1,940 in 2010 and 2,071 in 2000.

Before taking its biblical name, the community was known as McKinkleyville and Morristown.

Three local landowners combined their property into a 160-acre plot, divided it into residential and town lots, and sold them to launch the town; by 1904-1905 Samson supported two retail stores.

Samson incorporated in the mid-1900s decade — the 1910 U.S. census records incorporation in 1905, while the Encyclopedia of Alabama gives 1906 — and one of the new town government's first acts was hiring someone to remove stumps from Main Street.

A fire on April 6, 1909, destroyed much of Samson's downtown.

The city covers about 3.6 square miles in the cotton and peanut farming country of the Wiregrass region.

Samson students attend Samson Elementary School, Samson Middle School, and Samson High School in the Geneva County school system.

The city's current motto is 'The Friendly Little City with a Big Heart.'

In March 2009 Samson was one of the Geneva County communities struck by a mass shooting that remains the deadliest in Alabama history, an event the town has memorialized.