{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Corbin, Kansas |settlement_type = Unincorporated community

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'''Corbin''' is an unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas, United States.<ref name="GNIS"/> It is located about 6.5 miles northeast of Caldwell near the intersection of S Mayfield Rd and W 110th St S, next to the railroad.

==History== In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a branch line north–south from Herington through Corbin to Caldwell.<ref name="Rock Island Rail History">{{Cite web |url=http://home.covad.net/~scicoatnsew/rihist4.htm |title=Rock Island Rail History |access-date=2011-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619230000/http://home.covad.net/~scicoatnsew/rihist4.htm |archive-date=2011-06-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It foreclosed in 1891 and was taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, merged in 1988 with Missouri Pacific Railroad, merged in 1997 with Union Pacific Railroad. Most locals still refer to this railroad as the "Rock Island".

The post office was established February 6, 1884, and discontinued February 16, 1975.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:SU |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=27 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009131426/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3ASU |archivedate=October 9, 2013 }}</ref> The nearby Spring Creek School is on the National Register of Historic Places.

==Education== The community is served by Caldwell USD 360 public school district.

==Transportation== The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad formerly provided passenger rail service to Corbin on their mainline from Minneapolis to Houston until at least 1951.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://streamlinermemories.info/RI/RI51-05TT.pdf|title=Rock Island 1951 Timetable|access-date=July 27, 2025}}</ref> As of 2025, the nearest passenger rail station is located in Newton, where Amtrak's Southwest Chief stops once daily on a route from Chicago to Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amtrak.com/routes/southwest-chief-train.html|title=Amtrak Southwest Chief|access-date=July 27, 2025}}</ref>

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==Further reading== {{See also|Sumner County, Kansas#Further reading|l1=List of books about Sumner County, Kansas}}

==External links== * [https://co.sumner.ks.us/ Sumner County website] * [http://www.wizardofkansas.com/Corbin/Intro.htm Corbin history]

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