Biohazard Cleanup Near West Corinth Corinth, KY

Corinth is a home rule-class city lying mostly in Grant County, Kentucky, with a small portion of its land extending into Scott County.

The community traces its beginnings to the late 1820s, when Corinth Christian Church was founded, and the town most likely took its name from the church.

Corinth's post office was established in 1868, and much of the town lay in Owen County until the area was transferred to Grant County in 1876.

The Kentucky legislature incorporated Corinth in 1878 and chartered the Corinth Academy the same year; unusually, the town's charter allowed its corporate boundaries to extend across the county line into Scott County.

Corinth was struck by four major fires, in 1890, 1904, 1914 and 1933, that repeatedly destroyed much of its business district; in the 1890 fire, the train depot was saved using boiler water from a passing train.

In 1930, Corinth's boys' basketball team, coached by Ted Hornback, won the Kentucky state championship and went on to place third at the national tournament in Chicago.

The Corinth Water District was created in 1986 to improve the town's water supply, and the city obtained funding to build its own wastewater treatment plant in 1995.

U.S. Route 25 passes through the center of Corinth, and Interstate 75 crosses the western edge of the city limits at Exit 144, the Kentucky Route 330 interchange.

The 2020 census counted 226 residents in Corinth, little changed from 232 in 2010, within a city area of about 2.1 square miles.

Because it straddles the county line, Corinth's Grant County portion belongs to the Cincinnati metropolitan area while its Scott County portion belongs to the Lexington metropolitan area.