Corbin is a house rule-class city in Whitley, Knox and Laurel counties in the southeastern allowance of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,304. Corbin is upon Interstate 75, about halfway amongst Knoxville, Tennessee, and Lexington.

The first agreement in the Corbin Place 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 declare 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 below that herald in 1905.

Corbin has a scared racial past, including a race riot in late October 1919 in which a white mob forced nearly whatever the town’s 200 black residents onto a freight train out of town and a sundown town 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 like a confirmation 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 put it on prohibiting cities from brute in on height of two counties. However, a 2021 tweak to state do something 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 certified an annexation demand for a property in Laurel County.