Slocomb, AL

Slocomb is a Geneva County city in the Dothan metro, and its name is unusually personal: the community was named for postmaster Frank W. Slocomb. That is about all the short civic record gives you, but it is a useful local clue. This is Wiregrass Alabama, a small incorporated place whose identity follows county roads, the Dothan orbit, and the family name left behind by an early postmaster. Slocomb has its own city boundary and name even where the wider map starts to blend into the surrounding rural communities. Think southeast Alabama, with Dothan as the nearest big reference point.