However, beer and wine are sold in the city limits of Geneva, Samson, Slocomb, and most recently in Hartford, after residents voted to become wet in a 2022 election.

Geneva County is part of the Dothan, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The county was declared a disaster area in September 1979 due to damage from Hurricane Frederic.

McLendon entered his former place of employment, Reliable Metal Products on the northeastern side of Geneva, where he killed himself.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 26,659 people, 10,383 households, and 6,902 families residing in the county.

The last Democrat to carry the county was Deep South native Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Geneva is also noteworthy for being the best county in the country for Alabama native George Wallace in the 1968 election,[14] where his main support was from the Deep South and was strongest in the Wiregrass and Piney Woods regions.