Explore North Corbin, Kentucky, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for North Corbin, Kentucky. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Kentucky or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to North Corbin.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | North Corbin |
| State | Kentucky (KY) |
| County | Laurel County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 36.960643 |
| Longitude | -84.093265 |
| Population | 1,727 |
| Density | 374.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 40701 |
| Area Code | 606 |
| County Seat | London |
| School District | Laurel County School District |
North Corbin stretches across a landscape defined by the persistent, quiet movement of Lynn Camp Creek, which carves a path through the low-lying terrain. It lies 29.6 miles east-southeast of Somerset, KY (from Somerset, KY: bearing 108°T), and is situated 0.8 miles north-northeast of Corbin. The air here holds a distinct, heavy clarity, especially as the late afternoon light settles over the verdant fields and the dense, encroaching woodlands that define the regional character. While the distant Appalachian Mountains appear as a faint, jagged smudge of blue against the horizon, the immediate ground is shaped by the subtle shifts of the soil and the presence of St John'S Community Park, a quiet expanse that offers a place for the day to slow its pace. The proximity of Laurel River Lake provides a vast, still reservoir of water that influences the humidity and the deep, mossy green of the surrounding vegetation, grounding the region in an atmosphere of enduring, quiet moisture.
Industry and the echoes of a rail-driven heritage continue to shape the daily reality of North Corbin, where the economy remains tied to the movement of goods and the steady labor of its inhabitants. History here is felt in the lingering memory of coal-camp life and the transformation of the region into a crossroads for modern transit, shifting the rhythm of the local streets from the slow, deliberate work of the past to the constant, humming pulse of a thoroughfare. The people navigate their days with a pragmatic resilience, moving between the modest commerce of the center and the quiet stretches of land that slope toward the distant, hidden pockets of Gozey Hollow. Life here possesses a singular, unadorned gravity, where the shift from the bright, open expanse of the afternoon to the long, indigo shadows of evening marks the true passage of time for those who call the region home.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of North Corbin, Kentucky. Coordinates: 36.960643, -84.093265. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for North Corbin includes the ZIP code (40701), telephone area code (606), county seat of Laurel County (London), and school district assignment (Laurel County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |