Do you know of Leighton ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Leighton. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Leighton.

Our sources for Leighton (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Leighton other than they indicate that Leighton would be found somewhere in Coffee County, Georgia.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Leighton ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Leighton.

Within Georgia, the name Leighton is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Colbert County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Leighton [Colbert County].
- Arkansas
  - Prairie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Leighton [Prairie County].
- California
  - Shasta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Leighton [Shasta County].
- Iowa
  - Mahaska County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Leighton [Mahaska County].
- Kentucky
  - Estill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Leighton [Estill County].
- Louisiana
  - Lafourche Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Leighton [Lafourche Parish].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Leighton.
- Minnesota
  - Hennepin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Leighton [Hennepin County].
- Mississippi
  - Lee County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Leighton [Lee County].
- New Mexico
  - Colfax County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Leighton [Colfax County].
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Leighton [Union County].
- Tennessee
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Leighton [Madison County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Leighton ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Leighton:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Leighton - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Map from 1899 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in Coffee County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Coffee County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Leighton could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.