Flomaton is a town in Escambia County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the town’s population was 1,440. It is located against the Alabama / Florida make a clean breast line.

Flomaton was incorporated as a town in 1908, having been settled upon a railway junction in 1869. The site was a junction of different lines of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Into the 1960s the L&N ran trains south to the seashore resort city of Pensacola, Florida. The L&N main extraction was a conduit for trains to New York City, Cincinnati, Atlanta and New Orleans. The name “Flomaton” was chosen as a interest of “Florida”, “Alabama” and “town”, reflecting the town’s location upon the border between the two states. In the beforehand twentieth century, the town’s economy was driven by the timber industry and the town’s location at an important railway junction.

Flomaton is located at 31°0′32″N 87°15′21″W / 31.00889°N 87.25583°W / 31.00889; -87.25583 (31.008921, -87.255746). It sits upon the northern side of the border between Alabama and Florida. On the southern side of the attach lies the town of Century in Florida’s Escambia County.

U.S. Route 29 and U.S. Route 31 join at the town. The former, starting 45 miles (72 km) to the south in Pensacola, Florida, enters the town exceeding the acknowledge border; the latter enters the town from the west, having originated near Mobile. The two highways continue together for practically 13 miles (21 km) in a north-easterly direction, before separating at Brewton.