Safford is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Dallas County,

Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...

. Benjamin F. Gibson (1931–2021), United States District Court judge, was born in Safford.Federal Judicial Center-Benjamin F. Gibson
/ref> Safford is located at the intersection of State Route 5 and State Route 22 and is the western terminus of SR 22 which extends eastward to the Georgia state line.

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Unincorporated communities in Alabama Unincorporated communities in Dallas County, Alabama {{DallasCountyAL-geo-stub