The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Originally, Burns was a siding with a water tank on the Union Pacific Railroad. The community of Burns was conceived and marketed as a German-Lutheran settlement named New Berlin and initially platted as the Town of Luther in 1907. The original name was given by settlers of German Ancestry in honor of Martin Luther.
Burns was the center of the Golden Prairie District promoted by the James R. Carpenter's Federal Land & Securities Co. formed in 1905.
As of 2023 Main Street is the only paved road and the community has four blocks.
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Start Burns’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Burns’s history is told.
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2000
Nothing in Burns is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Burns has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Pine Bluffs High School in Pine Bluffs, 15.3 miles away.
Burns and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.