Dale County, Alabama

Dale County is a county of the state of Alabama. The vast majority of Fort Rucker U.S. Army Aviation Center for Excellence is located in Dale County. Its name is in honor of General Samuel Dale. As of the 2010 census the population of Dale County was 50,251. Its county seat and Largest city is Ozark.

Dale County is part of the Enterprise-Ozark Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History
The area now known as Dale County was originally inhabited by members of the Creek Indian nation, who occupied all of southeastern Alabama during this period. The county, together with the surrounding area, was ceded to the United States in the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson, ending the Creek Indian Wars. A blockhouse had been constructed during the conflict on the northwestern side of the Choctawhatchee River, and the first non-Indian residents of Dale County would be veterans who began to settle in the area around 1820.

Dale County was established on December 22, 1824. It originally included the whole of what is now Coffee County and Geneva County, together with the "panhandle" portion of Houston County, Alabama. The original county seat was located at Dale's Court House (now known as the town of Daleville), but when Coffee County, Alabama split from Dale County in 1841, the seat was moved to Newton. It remained here until 1870 when it moved following a courthouse fire in 1869, and the formation of Geneva County, Alabama, to the town of Ozark. In 1903, a small portion of the southeast part of Dale County was joined to the newly formed Houston County.

Cities, Towns, and Census-Designated Places

 * Ariton, Alabama
 * Clayhatchee, Alabama
 * Daleville, Alabama
 * Dothan, Alabama (small part in Dale County, most in Houston County, Alabama, and a small portion in Henry County, Alabama)
 * Enterprise, Alabama (part-most of Enterprise is on Coffee County)
 * Fort Rucker, Alabama (treated as a census-designated place)
 * Grimes, Alabama
 * Level Plains, Alabama
 * Midland City, Alabama
 * Napier Field, Alabama
 * Newton, Alabama
 * Ozark, Alabama
 * Pinckard, Alabama

Unincorporated Communities

 * Arguta, Alabama
 * Asbury, Alabama
 * Bagwells Crossroads, Alabama
 * Barefield Crossroads, Alabama
 * Barnes, Alabama (Dale County)
 * Beamon, Alabama
 * Bells Crossroads, Alabama
 * Bertha, Alabama
 * Browns Crossroads, Alabama (Dale County)
 * Clopton, Alabama
 * Currytown, Alabama
 * Dill, Alabama
 * Dillard, Alabama
 * Dykes Crossroads, Alabama
 * Echo, Alabama
 * Ewell, Alabama
 * Five Points (Dale County), Alabama
 * Gerald, Alabama
 * Kelly, Alabama
 * Lewis, Alabama
 * Mabson, Alabama
 * Marley Mill, Alabama
 * Mount Hebron, Alabama
 * Phillips Crossroads, Alabama
 * Plainview, Alabama
 * Rocky Head, Alabama
 * Roberts Crossroads, Alabama
 * Skipperville, Alabama
 * Snells Crossroads, Alabama
 * Snow Hill, Alabama
 * Sylvan Grove, Alabama