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Burbank, California

45 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the San Fernando Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 91502. It lies near Sunset Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Burbank quadrangle. 107,337 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Burbank within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1894 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Burbank, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of Burbank, surveyed 1894

Compare 1894 against another survey:

On record in Burbank

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

4 figures

Burbank grew from 89,000 to 107,337 between 1969 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
196989,000
198085,000-4,000 (-4%)
2010103,340
2020107,337+3,997 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 surveys from 45 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

124 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Burbank between 1996 and 2020, burning about 9,486 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined77
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAngeles National ForestTUNA
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2005Fireworks18 acresAngeles National ForestCABRINI
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAngeles National ForestMALIBU
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,012 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAngeles National ForestLOWELL
25 September 2011Naturalunder an acreInyo National ForestRED ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Burbank: 9 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ross DepositGraniteOccurrence
Unnamed AditGold, CopperProspect
Unnamed Calcite OccurrenceCalciumProspect
Verdugo Canyon DepositGraphiteProspect
Verdugo Mountain DepositGraphitePast Producer
Brush Canyon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Los Angeles Park Dept. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mill City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Blue Diamond Corp. - Roscoe PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burbank in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1998FloodBurbank-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Burbank Junction0.6 miles45
Sepulveda1.9 miles45
McNeil2.2 miles45
Magnolia Park2.2 miles45
Vega2.4 miles45
North Glendale2.7 miles45
La Paco2.8 miles45
West Glendale2.9 miles45

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BurbankAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q39561The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1652677. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.