{"id":19966,"count":3,"description":"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 2000 census the population was 849. 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, the town is also the birthplace of American soul musician Percy Sledge.\nLeighton is located at 34\u00b041\u203259\u2033N 87\u00b031\u203251\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff34.69972\u00b0N 87.53083\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 34.69972; -87.53083 (34.699642, -87.530699).\nAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6\u00a0km), all of it land.\nAs of the census of 2000, there were 849 people, 360 households, and 235 families residing in the town. The population density was 857.8 people per square mile (331.1\/km\u00b2). There were 414 housing units at an average density of 418.3 per square mile (161.5\/km\u00b2). The racial makeup of the town was 44.41% White, 55.12% Black or...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/leighton\/","name":"Leighton","slug":"leighton","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/19966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=19966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}