Corbin, Kentucky Corbin, Kentucky Location of Corbin, Kentucky Location of Corbin, Kentucky Corbin is a home rule-class town/city in Whitley and Knox counties in the southeastern portion of the U.S.
The urbanized region around Corbin extends into Laurel County; this region is not incorporated into the town/city limits due to a state law prohibiting metros/cities from being in more than two counties.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 7,304, with 21,132 living in the "urban cluster" that includes Corbin and North Corbin.
The first settlement in the Corbin region was known as Lynn Camp Station and the first postal service was called Cummins for improve founder Nelson Cummins.
He chose Corbin, for the Rev.
James Corbin Floyd, a small-town minister. The town was incorporated under that name in 1905.
Corbin has a somewhat troubled ethnic past, including a race brawl in 1919 in which a white mob forced nearly all the town's 200 black inhabitants onto a freight train out of town, and a sundown town policy until the late 20th century. Corbin lies in the Cumberland Plateau region of Appalachia in southeastern Kentucky.
Corbin exhibits a humid subtropical climate, typical of southeastern Kentucky.
The climate of Corbin is somewhat moderated by the encircling mountain peaks.
Climate data for Corbin, Kentucky The entire town/city of Corbin is positioned in the London, Kentucky micropolitan area, whose current boundaries were established in 2013 by the U.S.
Office of Management and Budget in coordination with the United States Enumeration Bureau. Previously, the London micropolitan region had consisted solely of Laurel County, while the Whitley County portion of Corbin was the principal town/city of its own micropolitan region 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 populace of 94,486 at the 2010 census. The Knox County portion of Corbin was outside the former Corbin London statistical area, but is now encompassed in the redefined London micropolitan area.
Each year in early August, Corbin hosts a festival called NIBROC (Corbin spelled backwards) featuring open-air concerts, carnival attractions, a beauty pageant, parade, and other affairs.
In episode 10 of the American reality-documentary tv 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 small-town woman participating in the NIBROC parade.
Even with being in dry counties (Knox and Whitley), the town/city of Corbin allows full retail alcohol sales, following a prosperous small-town option election on February 14, 2012.
Corbin has an association with Kentucky Fried Chicken, having been the locale 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 visits the town to meet with Harland Sanders.
Corbin is depicted as positioned in a lush precipitation forest in parody of the 1983 film Scarface, wherein Tony Montana and Omar Suarez visit Bolivia to meet with a drug kingpin. Corbin is governed by a mayor and town/city commission; since it does not have a mayor/alderman form of government, it is considered home rule-class under Kentucky's current town/city classification fitness that took effect in 2015.
Corbin is one of the several metros/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 of the town/city limits.
The town/city receives a portion of the occupational tax collected in Whitley County, but Knox County has refused to give Corbin a part of the 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 inside town/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 cancelled the effect of court rulings that would have enabled the town/city of Corbin to keep all the revenue from the tax generated inside the town/city limits.
Corbin's mayor, Willard Mc - Burney, vowed to carry the fight to the state Supreme Court. Corbin is positioned in Kentucky's 5th Congressional District.
Corbin, like many communities of its size in southeastern Kentucky, has an autonomous school fitness (in Kentucky, a enhance school fitness not affiliated with a county; most such districts are associated with individual cities).
The Corbin Independent School District includes: Corbin Preschool Center Corbin Primary (grades K-2) (Currently homed by newest building in the precinct that was rebuilt entirely) Corbin Elementary (grades 3-4) Corbin Intermediate (grades 5-6) Corbin Middle (grades 7-8) (Currently homed by earliest building in the district) Corbin High (grades 9-12) (Currently homed by newest building in precinct (expansion and remodel/ not rebuilt entirely)) Corbin Vocational In 2004, Eastern Kentucky University opened an extension ground in Corbin.
The annual Battle for the Brass Lantern, a college football rivalry game between the University of the Cumberlands and Union College, was played at Corbin High School's stadium in 2006 and 2007, as a neutral field roughly equidistant from the two campuses.
Corbin was formerly home to Saint Camillus Academy, a private pre-K-8 school affiliated with the Catholic Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky.
The new school building is still situated up on a prominent hill overlooking the town, providing a striking backdrop to the streets of downtown Corbin.
The property and grounds of the school were sold to the Corbin School System to home a new Corbin Middle School due to quickly increasing student populace and age of the current building.
Corbin straddles Interstate 75 and U.S.
Corbin, Kentucky skyline, 2006 Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum, the place of birth of Kentucky Fried Chicken (though not sold as the KFC/Kentucky Fried Chicken brand at the time) is positioned in North Corbin.
Cumberland Gap and Cumberland Gap National Historical Park are about 50 miles (80 km) south of Corbin on U.S.
News Journal, weekly journal covering both Corbin (headquarters) and the Whitley County, Kentucky region including Williamsburg, Kentucky.
WRHR-LPFM 95.3, (Also Known As Corbin's Own Red 95.3)(broadcast by the Corbin High School) WVTN (Channel 22 Time Warner Cable) (religious)(broadcast from Corbin with small-town and county-wide churches and theological syndicated programs part of the airways broadcast WVCT 91.5) RBS (Channel 18 Time Warner Cable) (Corbin school precinct information transmitting the WRHR airways broadcast red 95.3) Carpenter, a doctor, who once lived in Corbin, after whom the town of Carpenter, Kentucky was named.
"MONTHLY AVERAGES for Corbin, KY".
13-01: Revised Delineations of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Micropolitan Statistical Areas, and Combined Statistical Areas, and Guidance on Uses of the Delineations of These Areas" (PDF).
"COMBINED STATISTICAL AREAS AND COMPONENT CORE BASED STATISTICAL AREAS, December 2006, WITH CODES".
"Corbin says 'Yes'".
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"Corbin gets mention in 'South Park' episode".
"Corbin to sue Knox County".
"Corbin loses occupational tax case appeal".
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Corbin/Williamsburg News Journal Archived March 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine., Corbin, KY: Moving to Corbin; Battle of Lantern will be played at Campbell Field.
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