Burden Kansas Map

About Burden, Kansas

Burden is a locality in Cowley County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 512. The population density is 382.4 people per km². Burden is located at 37.3128°N, 96.7542°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Burden is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67019.

Burden occupies a quiet expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon stretches wide and unburdened under a vast, pale sky. It lies 14.2 miles east-northeast of Winfield, KS (from Winfield, KS: bearing 69°T), and is situated 32.5 miles east-southeast of Derby. Plum Creek carves a shallow, winding path through the local terrain, its banks lined with the gnarled silhouettes of cottonwoods that catch the low, honeyed light of late afternoon. To the east, the rugged, limestone-ribbed slopes of the Flint Hills rise like a distant, weathered spine, casting long shadows across the prairie grass when the sun begins its descent. Beyond the immediate fields, the landscape remains open and elemental, defined by the persistent push of the wind against the tallgrass and the steady, rhythmic turning of the seasons.

Burden emerged from the expansion of the nineteenth-century rail lines, serving as a vital junction for the agricultural bounty pulled from the surrounding earth. The local economy persists in a quiet dialogue with the land, rooted in the cultivation of wheat and the steady husbandry of livestock that defines the character of the region. Residents maintain a connection to the outdoor stillness of the nearby Winfield City Lake Recreation Area, while the waters of Timber Creek Lake provide a localized reprieve for those seeking the cool clarity of the landscape. Life in Burden moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands its own history, where the dust of earlier eras has settled into a durable, unpretentious daily routine.

About This Burden Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Burden, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.312802, -96.754197. 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 Burden includes the ZIP code (67019), telephone area code (785), county seat of Cowley County (Winfield), and school district assignment (Central Unified School District 462).

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.