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Dothan is a city with an area of 224.9 km˛ (86.8 mi˛) and a population of 57,737 people Search and find companies, telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses in the Business Directory Dothan Dothan is a city located in extreme southeastern Alabama. The seat Houston County, portions of the city are located in Dale County and Henry County. The name of the city derives from a town mentioned in a Bible verse, Genesis 37:17 - For I heard them say, let us go to Dothan. Dothan is the birthplace of Johnny Mack Brown (1904-1974), an All-American college football player and successful film actor. Actors William Gray Espy (the original Snapper of long-running CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless), Brandy Brown, and Donna D Errico were also born in Dothan. Singer Bobby Goldsboro, famous for his 1968 Top 40 #1 hit Honey as well as many other Top 40 releases of the late 1960s and early 1970s, grew up in Dothan and graduated from Dothan High School, although he was born in Mariana, Florida Original inhabitants were the Alabama and Creek Native American tribes. The first English settlers of the area called the community Poplar Head . Later, when the town applied for a post office, it was discovered that a Poplar Head post office already existed in northern Alabama. A new name was sought. The town of Dothan was incorporated November 11, 1885. In 1902 Dothan resident W. M. Cooper released a revision of B. F. White s popular tune book, The Sacred Harp.