DOTHAN, a city in the extreme south-eastern part of Ala bama, U.S.A. ; the county seat of Houston county. It is on Fed eral highways 84 and 231, and is served by the Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay, the Atlantic Coast Line, and the Central of Georgia railways. The population was 10,034 in 1920 (43% negroes) and was 16,046 in 193o by the Federal census. Dothan is the centre of a fertile farming and stock-raising region, and has a large number of diversified manufacturing industries. The city was founded in 1884 and incorporated in 1885.