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Dasher is a small town in southeastern Lowndes County, Georgia, on U.S. Route 41, about seven miles southeast of Valdosta, the county seat.

Dasher was established in 1889 as a station on the newly completed Georgia Southern and Florida Railway, at the residence of V. F. Dasher.

Although it was settled in 1889, Dasher was not incorporated until 1968, when the Georgia General Assembly granted the town its charter.

The 2020 census counted 890 people in Dasher, down from 912 in 2010 and up from 834 in 2000, and the 2000 census recorded 298 households and 230 families in the town.

The Dasher and Wisenbaker families who settled the area were descendants of the Salzburgers of Ebenezer in Effingham County; Christian Herman Dasher arrived in the Wiregrass region around 1832, and the area around Dasher was first settled about 1842.

Dasher thrived in the early 1900s on the timber and turpentine business and its railroad station.

Georgia Christian School traces its roots to the Dasher Bible School, founded in Dasher in 1916, and the school still operates on Dasher Road; Dasher's public school students are zoned to Lowndes High School.