Skip to content
EntityQ66513· pop 35· linked from 76 articles

Also known as Leighton, AL, Leighton, Alabama

town in Alabama

Key facts

County
Colbert
Total
2.16 sq mi (5.59 km )
Land
2.16 sq mi (5.59 km )
Water
0 sq mi (0.00 km )
Elevation
584 ft (178 m)
Density
308.3/sq mi (119.02/km )
Time zone
UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
Summer dst
UTC-5 (CDT)
Fips code
01-42160
Country
United States
State
Alabama

via Wikipedia infobox

~5 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Leighton is a town in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Florence - Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Statistical Area known as "The Shoals". At the 2020 census, the population was 665. Leighton has been hit by several tornadoes in the 2000s, including a damaging EF2 on May 8, 2008, that was caught on tape flipping over many cars and damaging buildings.

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leighton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map