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
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Leighton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Colbert County
- Population
- 665
- Area
- 2.550153
- Elevation
- 173
- Image
- Leighton-City-Hall-al.jpg
- Households
- 335
- Dialing code
- 256
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- postal code
- 35646
- Commons category
- Leighton, Alabama
- water as percent of area
- 0
- water area
- 0
- per capita income
- 17380
- mean age
- 44.1
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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.
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