Midland City, AL

Midland City is a Dale County town incorporated in 1890 in southeastern Alabama, near Dothan and Napier Field. The town's name likely came from the railroad, although local accounts also connect it to the community's position midway between Thomasville, Georgia, and Montgomery. That naming uncertainty is part of the place's early character: Midland City grew along a rail corridor, then settled into the web of towns around Dothan. It is not Dale County's seat—that role belongs to Ozark—but it is one of the county's named municipalities on the southeast Alabama map.