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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.

North Corbin within Laurel County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

91 since 1994

Regional 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 burning47
Recreation and ceremony16
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 August 2007Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBEGLEY
19 August 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresDaniel Boone National Forest3 SISTERS
19 August 2008Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestLAUREL BRIDGE
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAWDUST PI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurel County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
No. 1 MillClayPlant
No. 1 MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Laurel County

Storms near this place

10 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2002Tornado (F0)North Corbin$55,000A 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 2024HailNorth Corbin-A video on social media showed approximately 1 inch hail falling behind the KFC in North Corbin.
March 2021HailNorth Corbin-A report of pea to penny sized hail was made in north Corbin.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Corbin-An abandoned mobile home's roof was ripped off.
August 2003HailNorth Corbin-Penny-size hail was reported on Route 770 off exit 29 of Interstate 75.
May 2002HailNorth Corbin-Quarter size hail increased to the size of golfballs as it moved just north of North Corbin.
June 2002HailNorth Corbin-Three quarter inch hail was reported at exit 29 on Interstate 75.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindNorth Corbin-Trees were down along United States Route 25.
July 2003HailNorth Corbin-no account filed
June 2002HailNorth Corbin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laurel 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
Camp Grounds1.4 miles17
Hopewell2.2 miles17
Dorthae2.3 miles17
Lily4.5 miles14
Keavy4.7 miles14
McHargue5.1 miles14
Vox5.9 miles16
Boreing6.8 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 North CorbinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316211The 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.