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Corbin, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 67022. The Survey maps it on the Perth quadrangle.

Corbin within Sumner County

On record in Corbin

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Corbin between 2015 and 2019, burning about 158 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSumner County21238
15 March 2015Smoking30 acresKansas Forest Service21062
15 March 2015Debris and open burning60 acresKansas Forest Service6
10 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use30 acresKansas Forest Service2
15 February 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresSumner County21231
14 February 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service21297
14 February 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service21418
31 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service30311

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumner County

Storms near this place

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corbin in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCorbin$150,000A combination of large hail and microburst straight-line winds caused extensive damage across south-central and southwest portions of Sumner County. At least two outbuildings, one of which was newly constructed, were heavily damaged. A residence sustained roof, siding and window damage, and a few vehicles sustained hail damage. Eight to ten power poles were snapped across the area, and five-inch diameter tree limbs were downed.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCorbin$10,000Several elm trees were knocked down, including one that was knocked down onto a garage. The tree collapsed the garage and it was considered a total loss.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCorbin$3,750Powerlines were blown down.
April 2026HailCorbin-Quarter to two inch sized hail reported.
April 2026HailCorbin-The report was received via image on social media.
April 2015FloodCorbin-Heavy rains had caused some nuisance flooding on county roads with a few being covered by shallow water.
May 2015FloodCorbin-Flooding was reported along the Chikaskia River.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCorbin-Winds were estimated around 60 mph.
June 2001Flash FloodCorbin-Roadway flooded.
April 2016HailCorbin-no account filed
April 2015Heavy RainCorbin-no account filed
July 2008HailCorbin-no account filed
July 2008HailCorbin-no account filed
April 2003HailCorbin-no account filed
May 2001HailCorbin-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindCorbin-no account filed
June 2001HailCorbin-no account filed
September 2001HailCorbin-no account filed
April 1998HailCorbin-no account filed
June 1998HailCorbin-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCorbin-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindCorbin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumner County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Perth3.9 miles19
Drury7.2 miles13
Caldwell7.3 miles19
Rome8.4 miles13
South Haven9.0 miles13
Mayfield9.1 miles19
Doster10.0 miles19
Roland10.7 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CorbinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5169754The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 470307. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.