Fort Davis, Alabama, is named after Fort Madison Davis, the town’s first postmaster and one of the town’s founders, and not a military base. As of 2020, the town had a population of 156.

One of the town’s landmarks is the Fort Davis Railroad Depot. Built in 1904, it was a part of the Savannah-Americus-Montgomery Railway line. This is the second depot for the town of Fort Davis after the first one burned.