Burbank, OK

Burbank is a town in western Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 123 residents. Burbank was founded in 1903 on the Osage Reservation. The founder was Anthony "Gabe" Carlton, a mixed-blood Osage and a Chouteau family descendant, who owned the townsite and named it after the artist Elbridge Ayer Burbank who spent his life painting the Indians of over 125 tribes. The southern portion of the community is in Woodland Public Schools while the northern portion is in Shidler Public Schools. The short version is that Burbank carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Burbank: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Burbank is 22 miles west of Pawhuska and 122 miles northeast of Oklahoma City.