 midland city is a town in dale county, alabama, united states. at the 2010 u.s. census the population was 2,352. this town is the location of dothan regional airport. it is part of the ozark micropolitan statistical area. ==history== ===2013 hostage standoff===  on january 29, 2013, 65-year-old vietnam war-era veteran jimmy lee dykes climbed aboard a school bus and fatally shot the driver; he then abducted at random a five-year-old boy named ethan, who was sitting at the closest seat. he took ethan into an underground bunker, where he held him captive. about a week after the incident, fbi agents were able to storm the bunker, kill dykes, and rescue ethan. ==geography== midland city is located at  (31.307945, -85.490606). according to the u.s. census bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. ==demographics== as of the census{{cite web|url=http://factf
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