Dale County, Alabama
| Dale County, Alabama | |
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 Location in the U.S. state of Alabama |
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 Alabama's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | December 22, 1824 |
| Named for | Samuel Dale |
| Seat | Ozark |
| Largest city | Ozark |
| Area | |
| • Total | 563 sq mi (1,458 km2) |
| • Land | 561 sq mi (1,453 km2) |
| • Water | 1.6 sq mi (4 km2), 0.3% |
| Population (est.) | |
| • (2015) | 49,565 |
| • Density | 90/sq mi (35/km²) |
| Congressional district | 2nd |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 |
| Website | www |
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Dale County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census the population was 50,251. Its county seat and largest city is Ozark. Its name is in honor of General Samuel Dale.
Dale County comprises the Ozark, AL Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Dothan-Enterprise-Ozark, AL Combined Statistical Area.
The vast majority of Fort Rucker, the U.S. Army Aviation Center for Excellence, is located in Dale County.
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. Between the years of 1764 and 1783 this region fell under the jurisdiction of the colony of British West Florida. 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. The original county seat was located at Dale's Court House (now the town of Daleville), but when Coffee County split from Dale in 1841, the seat was moved to Newton. Here it remained until 1870 when, following a courthouse fire in 1869 and the formation of Geneva County (which took the southern third of Dale County), the county seat was moved to the town of Ozark, where it remains. In 1903 a small portion of the southeast part of Dale county was joined to the newly formed Houston County.
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