history of the name burden
Burden is a city in Cowley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 535. Contents. History. In 1879, in anticipation of the coming of the Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad, the town of Burden was surveyed and laid out by a town company including Robert F. Burden, for whom the town is named. The railroad, whose name changed to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, arrived on February 1, 1882.