Corning is a village in Holt County, Missouri, United States.

[4] The village is named for Erastus Corning who owned sizeable shares of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad and who is the namesake of another Burlington railroad community Corning, Iowa.

[6] From 1882 to 1980, a spur owned by the Burlington operated between Corning and Clarinda, Iowa initially under the name of the Tarko Valley Railroad.

[7] The village's St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

[9] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.11 square miles (0.28 km2), all land.

25.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

There are 25.0% of families living below the poverty line and 24.0% of the population, including no under eighteens and 100.0% of those over 64.