Dale County, Alabama
Dale County · Ozark · the Wiregrass seat sits here · Dothan is Houston
Ozark is the hall. Daleville was the first seat. Dothan is Houston.
Dale County, Alabama, was erected 22 December 1824 and named for General Samuel Dale. The first seat was Dale’s Court House, later Daleville. The hall sat in Newton from 1841 until an 1870 election moved it to Ozark. Ozark is the seat. Ozark is also the large city of this county. Daleville is a city — it is not the hall now. Dothan is Houston. Dothan is not this hall. Enterprise sits mostly in Coffee; part of it also sits here. Enterprise is not this county government. Fort Novosel (formerly Fort Rucker) sits on this map. It is federal. It is not the county hall. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. It does not sit here.
Places include Ozark, Daleville, Newton, Ariton, Midland City, Level Plains, Clayhatchee, Napier Field, and Pinckard. 2020 census: 49,326. This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Wiregrass patrol and the Adams Street jail — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Dale County.
Five members, chair at large, at Highway 123. They do not sit in Daleville as this county.
Dale is a five-member County Commission with a chair elected at large (Act 2010-109). There is no County Executive. Commission offices sit at 202 South AL-123, Ozark. They fund roads, the jail, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Ozark City Council is a city body. Daleville is a city.
The courthouse is at 100 East Court Square, Ozark (33rd Judicial Circuit with Geneva). The Circuit Clerk and Absentee Election Manager list that Court Square door (SOS). A city hall in Daleville is not this county.
The Sheriff is four years, Article V § 138, 2026 with the Governor. Take office 18 January 2027. The Mayor of Ozark is a city clock.
Fort Novosel is federal. It is not this jail.
Fort Novosel (formerly Fort Rucker) is the Army’s aviation post. It is not this Sheriff’s jail. It is not Ozark City Hall. U.S. 231 and State 249 are the through roads. Coffee is west. Pike and Barbour are north. Henry and Houston are east. Geneva is south. Staff who paste a Dothan postcard onto Court Square, or treat Fort Novosel MPs as this badge, or file “Enterprise as the Dale hall,” are on the wrong county.
How an Ozark public finds the Dale desk
Courthouse / Circuit Clerk / Absentee: 100 East Court Square, Ozark. Board of Registrars: 100 Court Square. Commission: 202 South AL-123. Sheriff headquarters (SOS): 113 West Reynolds Street, Ozark. Jail: 124 Adams Street, Ozark. Confirm live addresses on dalecountyal.org and daleso.com. A student who only knows a Dothan photograph has not found Ozark.
Adams Street still jails. Ozark PD does not.
Crime in unincorporated Dale — Newton country, Ariton, the roads between Ozark and Midland City outside city limits — is this Sheriff. Crime in Ozark is often Ozark Police. Crime in Daleville is often Daleville Police. This Sheriff is not Ozark PD. The Secretary of State lists the Sheriff at 113 West Reynolds Street. Jail listings use 124 Adams Street (116-bed house, Jail Administrator a Sheriff’s captain). That is not a separate county Department of Corrections. Do not paste Fort Novosel onto Adams Street. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Ozark Police or to Dothan. Civil process and courthouse security at 100 East Court Square are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at the post gate. Remedy for Ozark Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when a Wiregrass storm sits is this count first.
Care without inventing an aviation chapel as this county
A peace order served in Ariton. A transport from 124 Adams to 100 East Court Square without becoming Ozark Police. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Fort Novosel as this badge.
What Dale actually watches
Court calendar on Court Square. A wreck on U.S. 231. Fog toward Newton. A night road outside Midland City. Coordination with Ozark PD, Daleville PD, and ALEA without becoming those departments. Coordination with a Fort Novosel desk is federal liaison, not a merger of badges. Coordination with Coffee’s Sheriff or Houston’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. A Dothan photograph does not steal the seat.
Dale snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Ozark · Large city (also the hall): Ozark · Old seat (not the hall now): Daleville / Newton · Capital of Alabama: Montgomery
- Government: five Commissioners, chair at large · Commission 202 South AL-123 · courthouse 100 East Court Square
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · patrol and jail at 124 Adams Street
- Court / Absentee: 100 East Court Square · HQ: 113 West Reynolds Street
- Neighbors: Coffee · Pike · Barbour · Henry · Houston · Geneva
- Not Dothan as the hall · Not Fort Novosel as this jail · Not Enterprise as this county government
What Ozark is not, as this county
- Not Dothan. Not Houston County. Not Daleville as the hall now.
- Not Enterprise as this county government. Not Fort Novosel as this jailer.
- Not Ozark Police as this Sheriff. Not an aviation postcard as the hall.
- Not a campaign flyer.