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.
Then and now
1894 to 1979The 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.


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
City Hall-City of Burbanklisted 1996
US Post Office-Burbank Downtown Stationlisted 1985- Mariposa Street Bridgelisted 2024
Population over time
4 figuresBurbank 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 89,000 | |
| 1980 | 85,000 | -4,000 (-4%) |
| 2010 | 103,340 | |
| 2020 | 107,337 | +3,997 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
20 surveys from 45 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
- 1896 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1902 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1920 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
- 1921 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1926 USGS Burbank quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Burbank quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Burbank quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Burbank quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Burbank quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
124 since 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 77 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 acres | Los Angeles County Fire Department | not named |
| 5 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Angeles National Forest | TUNA |
| 30 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Fireworks | 18 acres | Angeles National Forest | CABRINI |
| 3 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | MALIBU |
| 29 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,012 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 27 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Angeles National Forest | LOWELL |
| 25 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Inyo National Forest | RED ROCK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ross Deposit | Granite | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Adit | Gold, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Calcite Occurrence | Calcium | Prospect | ||
| Verdugo Canyon Deposit | Graphite | Prospect | ||
| Verdugo Mountain Deposit | Graphite | Past Producer | ||
| Brush Canyon Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Los Angeles Park Dept. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mill City Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Blue Diamond Corp. - Roscoe Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1998 | Flood | Burbank | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burbank Junction | 0.6 miles | 45 | |
| Sepulveda | 1.9 miles | 45 | |
| McNeil | 2.2 miles | 45 | |
| Magnolia Park | 2.2 miles | 45 | |
| Vega | 2.4 miles | 45 | |
| North Glendale | 2.7 miles | 45 | |
| La Paco | 2.8 miles | 45 | |
| West Glendale | 2.9 miles | 45 |
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 Burbank | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q39561 | The 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.



















