Corbin is a
home rule-class city
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in
Whitley,
Knox and
Laurel counties in the southeastern portion of the
U.S. state
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of
Kentucky
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. As of the
2020 census, the city population was 7,856.
Corbin is on
Interstate 75
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and
US Route 25W, about halfway between
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in Knox County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. It is located on the Tennessee River and had a population of 190,740 at the 2020 United States census. It is the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division ...
, and
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city coterminous with and the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, making it the List of ...
.
History

The first settlement in the Corbin area was known as Lynn Camp Station. The first post office was called Cummins, for community founder Nelson Cummins. It was discovered in 1885 that both Cummins and Lynn Camp were already in use as names for Kentucky post offices, and postmaster James Eaton was asked to select another name. He chose Corbin for the Rev. James Corbin Floyd, a local minister. The town was incorporated under that name in 1905.
Corbin has a troubled racial past, including a
race riot in late October 1919 in which a white mob forced nearly all the town's 200 black residents onto a freight train out of town and a
sundown town
Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They were towns that practiced a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combinati ...
policy until the late 20th century. The event is the subject of a 1991 documentary, ''Trouble Behind''. In October 2019, city leaders marked the riot's centennial with a proclamation acknowledging the riot and former sundown town policy.
For most of its history, the urbanized areas of Corbin in Laurel County were not incorporated into the city limits due to a state law prohibiting cities from being in more than two counties. However, a 2021 change to state law allowed cities to voluntarily annex property in a third county if the city already provides public infrastructure to that property. In March 2022, the Corbin City Commission approved an annexation request for a property in Laurel County.
Geography
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, Corbin has a total area of , with only a tiny fraction of , or 0.56%, consisting of water.
Corbin lies in the
Cumberland Plateau
The Cumberland Plateau is the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. It includes much of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and portions of northern Alabama and northwest Georgia. The terms " Al ...
region of
Appalachia
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in southeastern Kentucky, along
Interstate 75
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and
U.S. Route 25W. I-75 provides access to the city from exit 25, leading north to
Lexington and south to
Knoxville
Knoxville is a city in Knox County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. It is located on the Tennessee River and had a population of 190,740 at the 2020 United States census. It is the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division ...
,
Tennessee
Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...
. U.S. 25W runs through the center of town, leading north to
London
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(via
U.S. Route 25) and south to
Williamsburg.
The Pine Mountain Overthrust Fault, a
geologic fault
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Large faults within Earth's crust result from the action of plate tectonic ...
system several miles to the east, produces occasional
tremors, the most recent in 2008.
Climate
Corbin exhibits a
humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a subtropical -temperate climate type, characterized by long and hot summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between ...
, typical of southeastern
Kentucky
Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...
. The region experiences four distinct seasons. Winters are cool to cold, with mild periods. Summers are generally hot and humid, with variable spring and fall seasons. Precipitation is common year-round but more prevalent in the summer months—the surrounding mountains somewhat moderate Corbin's climate.
Demographics
Corbin is near the center of the
Corbin, Kentucky micropolitan area, whose current boundaries were established in 2023 by the U.S.
Office of Management and Budget
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). The office's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, while it also examines agency pro ...
in coordination with the
United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, econ ...
.
Previously, the London micropolitan area had consisted solely of Laurel County, while the Whitley County portion of Corbin was the principal city of its own micropolitan area that consisted solely of that county. Both entities were in turn the components of a statistical entity officially known as the "Corbin–London, KY
Combined Statistical Area". The CSA had a combined population of 94,486 at the
2010 census.
The Knox County portion of Corbin was outside the former Corbin–London statistical area but is now included in the redefined London micropolitan area.
As of the 2010
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
there were 7,304 people, 3,093 households, and 1,903 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 3,507 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.41%
White
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(96.69%
non-Hispanic), 0.26%
African American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...
, 0.31%
Native American or
Alaska Native
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, 0.64%
Asian, 0.26% from
other races, and 1.11% from
two or more races. No
Pacific Islanders lived in the city in 2010.
Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 1.19% of the population.
There were 3,093 households, out of which 29.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.3% were
married couples
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and b ...
living together, 16.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 38.5% were non-families. 34.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27, and the average family size was 2.91.
The age distribution was 22.5% under 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 22.9% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 20.8% who were 65 or older. The median age was 41.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 80.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 75.8 males.
Income data from the 2010 Census for Kentucky locations have not yet been released. As of the 2000 Census, the median income for a household in the city was $22,203. The median income for a family was $32,784. Males had a median income of $27,323 versus $17,568 for females. The
per capita income
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In many countries, per capita income is determined using regular population surveys, such ...
for the city was $14,200. About 15.5% of families and 21.0% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 24.0% of those under age 18 and 16.4% of those age 65 or over.
Economy
Initially provided by
L&N Railroad,
rail transport
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was the backbone of the local economy in the first half of the 20th century. While the railroad (presently
CSX
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) continues to play an important role, the decline of the rail industry in the latter half of the 20th century, as well as the loss of some manufacturing jobs, has prompted the community to begin diversifying its economy.
Culture
Each year in early August, Corbin hosts a festival called NIBROC (''Corbin'' spelled backward) featuring open-air concerts, carnival attractions, a beauty pageant, parade, and other events. The festival is featured, if anachronistically, in the play ''Last Train to Nibroc'' by
Arlene Hutton. (Though the play is set in the 1940s, the festival itself only dates to 1952.) NIBROC often features free performances by popular musical acts such as
38 Special
38 Special or 0.38 Special or .38 Special, may refer to:
* .38 Special, a revolver cartridge
Music
* 38 Special (band), an American rock band
** ''38 Special'' (album), the 1977 debut album of the band 38 Special
* .38 Special (song), a 2022 ...
,
Foghat
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,
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1979 as a conjunction of lead musician, singer and songwriter Joan Jett and the backup band. It has undergone many lineup changes since its inception, ...
,
Kansas
Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...
,
The Marshall Tucker Band
The Marshall Tucker Band is an American rock band from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Noted for incorporating blues, country and jazz into an eclectic sound, the Marshall Tucker Band helped establish the Southern rock genre in the early 1970s. Wh ...
,
Percy Sledge,
Rick Springfield
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,
Starship
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,
Styx and
The Turtles
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. In episode 10 of the American reality-documentary television series ''
On the Road with Austin & Santino'' on
Lifetime entitled "We Love a Parade", the fashion designers visit Corbin to custom-design a dress for a local woman participating in the NIBROC parade.
Despite being in
dry counties
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(
Knox and
Whitley), like many southern cities, the city of Corbin allows full retail alcohol sales, following a successful local option election on February 14, 2012. The city had previously voted in 2004 to allow sales of alcohol by the drink in larger restaurants.
Corbin has an association with
Kentucky Fried Chicken
KFC Corporation, doing business as KFC (an abbreviation of Kentucky Fried Chicken), is an American fast food restaurant chain specializing in fried chicken and chicken sandwiches. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, it is the world's s ...
, having been the location of the chain's first restaurant, opened in 1930. Corbin appears in the animated cartoon ''South Park''s episode "
Medicinal Fried Chicken", wherein
Eric Cartman
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visits the town to meet with Harland Sanders. Corbin is depicted as located in a lush rain forest in a parody of the 1983 film ''
Scarface'', wherein
Tony Montana and Omar Suarez visit
Bolivia
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to meet with
a drug kingpin.
Government
Corbin is governed by a mayor and
city commission and a city manager who runs the departments' day-to-day operations. Currently, Marlon Sams is the city manager. Since it does not have a mayor/alderman form of government, Corbin is considered home rule-class under Kentucky's city classification system that took effect in 2015. Susie Razmus is the current mayor. Trent Knuckles, David Grigsby Hart, Ed Tye, and Andrew Pennington are its four current commissioners.
Corbin is one of the few cities in Kentucky that lie in two counties—Whitley and Knox. Many built-up areas in neighboring Laurel County have a Corbin postal address but lie outside the city limits. This arrangement has created some problems with taxes and census records. The city receives a portion of the occupational tax collected in Whitley County. However, Knox County has refused to give Corbin any tax collected there. On March 10, 2008, the City Commission voted to file a lawsuit against Knox County to receive a portion of the tax collected within city limits. On May 23, 2014, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that the "Stivers amendment", passed as part of KY HB 499 "Tax Amnesty" legislation in 2012, did not violate the state's constitution. The measure essentially canceled the effect of court rulings that would have enabled Corbin to keep all the revenue from the tax generated inside the city limits. Corbin's mayor, Willard McBurney, vowed to carry the fight to the state Supreme Court.
Corbin is in
Kentucky's 5th congressional district.
Education
Corbin, like many communities of its size in southeastern Kentucky, has an independent school system (in Kentucky, a
public school system not affiliated with a county; most such districts are associated with individual cities). The district was officially established in 1916, and the 100th class graduated in 2017. The
Corbin Independent School District includes:
* Corbin Preschool Center
* Corbin Primary (grades K-3)
* Corbin Elementary (grades 4–5) (Currently housed by the newest building in the district after a complete remodeling of the former Middle School.
* Corbin Middle (grades 6–8)
*
Corbin High (grades 9–12) (Currently housed by the oldest building in the district)
* Corbin School Of Innovation
The community and school system place considerable emphasis on the success of academics and high school athletic teams. Corbin "Redhound" sports are important social events within the community.
In 2004,
Eastern Kentucky University opened an extension campus in Corbin.
The annual ''Battle for the Brass Lantern'', a college football rivalry game between the
University of the Cumberlands and
Union Commonwealth University (formerly Union College), was played at Corbin High School's stadium in 2006 and 2007, as a neutral field roughly equidistant from the two campuses. The rivalry dates to 1905.
Corbin was formerly home to
Saint Camillus Academy, a private pre-K-8 Catholic school affiliated with the
Diocese of Lexington. Established in 1908 by the Sisters of Divine Providence, the school has been successful as both a boarding school for national and international students and as a
Montessori
The Montessori method of education is a type of educational method that involves children's natural interests and activities rather than formal teaching methods. A Montessori classroom places an emphasis on hands-on learning and developing ...
school. Its original schoolhouse, built in 1913, was demolished in summer 2008. The new school building is still situated atop a prominent hill overlooking the town, providing a striking backdrop to the streets of downtown Corbin. The school closed in 2012 after 99 years of service. The property and grounds of the school were sold to the Corbin School System to house a new Corbin Middle School due to the rapidly increasing student population and age of the current building.
Corbin has a
lending library
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, the Corbin Public Library.
Transportation
Corbin straddles
Interstate 75
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and
U.S. Highway 25 (which splits into
US 25E and
US 25W in North Corbin). The town is served by the
CSX
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rail line
Rail or rails may refer to:
Rail transport
*Rail transport and related matters
*Railway track or railway lines, the running surface of a railway
Arts and media Film
*Rails (film), ''Rails'' (film), a 1929 Italian film by Mario Camerini
*Rail ( ...
.
Sites of interest

*
Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, the site of a waterfall, one of the few in the Western Hemisphere that regularly produces a
moonbow
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, is to the southwest.
*
Harland Sanders Café and Museum, the birthplace of
Kentucky Fried Chicken
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(though not sold as the KFC/Kentucky Fried Chicken brand at the time), is located in
North Corbin. The restaurant and accompanying museum are popular with tour groups traveling along
Interstate 75
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.
* The Arena at the Southeastern Kentucky Ag and Expo Complex, a multi-purpose venue on top of a hill across from the Baptist Regional Medical Center, sits above the Corbin Center. This multi-purpose education center also houses the Corbin Tourism office.
* Nearby
Laurel River Lake, created by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1974, is a popular recreational site for
boating
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,
fishing
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,
water skiing
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, and
scuba diving
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.
*
Cumberland Gap
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and
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located at the border between Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, centered on the Cumberland Gap, a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains.
The park lies ...
are about south of Corbin on U.S. Highway 25E at the
Tennessee
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border.
Media
Newspapers
* The ''
Times-Tribune'', a Tuesday And Thursday newspaper
* ''
News Journal'', weekly newspaper covering both Corbin (headquarters) and the
Whitley County, Kentucky
Whitley County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,712. Its county seat is at Williamsburg, though the largest city is Corbin, and the county's District Cou ...
, area including
Williamsburg
Radio
*
WCTT AM 680 (Great 68; Oldies)
*
WKDP AM 1330
*
WEKF FM 88.5 (Eastern Ky Univ. affiliate)
*
WVCT FM 91.5 (Gospel Eagle; Southern Gospel)
*
WKDP FM 99.5 (Country)
*
WCTT FM 107.3 (T-107; Adult Contemporary)
*
WRHR-LPFM 95.3 (also known as Corbin's Own Red 95.3; broadcast by Corbin High School)
TV
* WVTN (Channel 22 Time Warner Cable) - religious; broadcast from Corbin with local and regional churches and religious syndicated programs part of the radio station WVCT 91.5
* RBS (Channel 18 Time Warner Cable) - Corbin school district information broadcasting the WRHR radio station Red 95.3
* YHC (Channel 21 on Time Warner Cable) - broadcasts local and regional business infomercials and runs on-screen ads playing Contemporary Christian Music
Notable people
*
Rodger Bird,
football
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player
*
Ensley A. Carpenter, doctor, once lived in Corbin, for whom the town of
Carpenter, Kentucky was named
*
Ted Cremer, football player
*
Debbie Dean, pop singer, first white solo artist signed to
Motown Records
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*
Richie Farmer, politician and former basketball player
*
Silas House, writer
*
Roy Kidd, retired football coach, member of the
College Football Hall of Fame
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, former head coach of
Eastern Kentucky University football; was born, raised, and currently resides here
*
Arthur Lake, actor who played Dagwood Bumstead in the ''Blondie'' movies
*
Ronni Lundy, food and music writer, cookbook author, and Southern Foodways Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award winner
*
George McAfee, WW2 Veteran, football player, NFL Hall of Fame inductee.
*
Dan Neal, football player
*
Colonel Harland Sanders, entrepreneur and founder of
Kentucky Fried Chicken
KFC Corporation, doing business as KFC (an abbreviation of Kentucky Fried Chicken), is an American fast food restaurant chain specializing in fried chicken and chicken sandwiches. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, it is the world's s ...
restaurant chain
*
Frank Selvy, basketball player
*
B. F. Shelton, old-timey banjo player
*
Jarrett Stidham, quarterback for
Baylor University
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,
Auburn University
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and the
New England Patriots
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.
*
Trent Taylor, NFL
wide receiver
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for the
San Francisco 49ers
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and
Cincinnati Bengals
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, in
college
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for
Louisiana Tech, lived in Corbin as a child, from age 2 through the end of
second grade
*
Mabel Martin Wyrick, writer
*
Mary Weddle, professional baseball player
See also
*
List of sundown towns in the United States
References
Further reading
*
External links
City of CorbinCorbin Economic Development AgencyCorbin Independent School District;Historical
"Kentucky Town Re-Examines Its Racial History" ''
Weekend Edition Saturday
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'',
NPR, March 10, 2007
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