North Corbin, Kentucky
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Corbin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40701. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Corbin quadrangle. 1,727 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.
On record in North 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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Harland Sanders Cafelisted 1990 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1894 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1952 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:24000
- 1970 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
91 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of North Corbin between 1994 and 2019, burning about 856 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 47 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 August 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | BEGLEY |
| 19 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | 3 SISTERS |
| 19 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | LAUREL BRIDGE |
| 3 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SAWDUST PI |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of North Corbin: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 Mill | Clay | Plant | ||
| No. 1 Mine | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Corbin in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | North Corbin | $55,000 | A brief tornado touched down just northeast of the highway 25 and 25E interchange near Corbin and concluded to the northeast of Campground Road. Eleven home received minor damage, as well as two barns and one out building. A cluster of trees were also blown down. |
| September 2024 | Hail | North Corbin | - | A video on social media showed approximately 1 inch hail falling behind the KFC in North Corbin. |
| March 2021 | Hail | North Corbin | - | A report of pea to penny sized hail was made in north Corbin. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Corbin | - | An abandoned mobile home's roof was ripped off. |
| August 2003 | Hail | North Corbin | - | Penny-size hail was reported on Route 770 off exit 29 of Interstate 75. |
| May 2002 | Hail | North Corbin | - | Quarter size hail increased to the size of golfballs as it moved just north of North Corbin. |
| June 2002 | Hail | North Corbin | - | Three quarter inch hail was reported at exit 29 on Interstate 75. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Corbin | - | Trees were down along United States Route 25. |
| July 2003 | Hail | North Corbin | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | North Corbin | - | no account filed |
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.
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 North Corbin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3316211 | The 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 514286. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.







