Burlingame Kansas Map

About Burlingame, Kansas

Burlingame is a locality in Osage County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 971. The population density is 424.1 people per km². Burlingame is located at 38.7539°N, 95.8350°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Burlingame is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66413.

Burlingame emerges from the expansive Kansas prairie as a settlement defined by the persistent, rhythmic presence of Switzler Creek, which carves a modest path through the local terrain. It lies 22.0 miles south-southwest of Topeka, KS (from Topeka, KS: bearing 203°T), and is situated 8.3 miles north of Osage City. The earth here is heavy and dark, a vast reach of high plains that catch the slanted, honeyed light of late afternoon, casting long shadows across the fields that stretch toward the distant, hazy blue silhouette of the Sand Hills. A mile away, the shallow depression of Major Draw catches the seasonal rains, while the horizon remains a flat, unbroken line, save for the occasional silhouette of a cottonwood tree swaying in the constant, restless wind. Six miles to the east, the stillness of Smith Lake offers a quiet counterpoint to the open, working landscape, and the nearby Pomona Recreation Area provides a sanctuary of scrub and grass where the sky feels impossibly wide and the air tastes of dry, sun-warmed soil.

Burlingame carries the weight of a history rooted in the coal-mining era and the steady endurance of the Santa Fe Trail, marks of which linger in the town’s sturdy, utilitarian architecture. The local economy, once tethered to the extraction of deep seams, has long since pivoted, finding its current expression in the quiet industry of agriculture and the maintenance of a community that values the slow, deliberate pace of the Great Plains. Residents move with the familiar habits of those who understand the temperament of the seasons, acknowledging the legacy of the region while tending to the needs of the present day. It is a place where the architecture of the past informs the modest streetscape, and where the silence of the surrounding fields serves as a constant reminder of the scale of the world beyond the porch light.

About This Burlingame Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Burlingame, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.753895, -95.834987. 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 Burlingame includes the ZIP code (66413), telephone area code (913), county seat of Osage County (Lyndon), and school district assignment (Burlingame Public School Unified School District 454).

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.