Langston is a town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-GA-AL Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 270, up from 254. Langston initially incorporated in 1899. At some dwindling after 1920, it disincorporated and did not reincorporate again until 1980 (after the census was taken that year, since it did not appear upon it). Its peak population was in 1920, when it had a population of 500.

Langston was settled in the 1810s, and was initially known as “Coffeetown” after the Coffee brothers, who were in the middle of the to the front settlers. A post office was conventional in 1845 next Langston Coffee as the first postmaster. In 1869, most of Coffeetown’s residents moved to Texas, and the past year, James Morgan sold lots for the commencement of a new town. The new town was named “Langston” after Langston Coffee.

Langston initially thrived as a river port along the Tennessee River, eventually growing to put in nine stores and a blacksmith shop. With the rise of railroad traffic in the late 19th century and automobile traffic in the early 20th century, however, the town began to decline. The construction of Guntersville Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the late 1930s flooded a significant share of the town, further reducing its population.

Langston is located at 34°32′05″N 86°04′56″W / 34.534817°N 86.082169°W / 34.534817; -86.082169. The town is situated upon the eastern shore of the Tennessee River, at river mile 377. This section of the river is allocation of Guntersville Lake, which is formed by Guntersville Dam nearly 30 miles (48 km) downstream. Sand Mountain rises immediately to the east of Langston. Scottsboro lies across the river to the north, and Section lies atop Sand Mountain to the northeast. County Road 67 connects Langston taking into consideration State Route 35 to the northeast.