Burbank is a city in the southeastern stop of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank has a population of 107,337. The city was named after David Burbank, who established a sheep ranch there in 1867.

Often called the “Media Capital of the World” and abandoned a few miles northeast of Hollywood, numerous media and entertainment companies are headquartered or have significant production facilities in Burbank, including Warner Bros. Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, The Burbank Studios, Cartoon Network Studios subsequent to the West Coast branch of Cartoon Network, and Insomniac Games. The shout out network The CW is as a consequence headquartered in Burbank. The Hollywood Burbank Airport was the location of Lockheed’s Skunk Works, which produced some of the most dull and technologically objector airplanes, including the U-2 spy planes that outdoor Soviet Union missile components in Cuba in October 1962. In addition, the city contains the largest IKEA in the U.S.

Burbank consists of two Definite areas: a downtown/foothill section, in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains, and the flatland section. The city was referred to as “Beautiful Downtown Burbank” on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, as both shows were taped at NBC’s former studios. The public pool at Verdugo Recreation Center is categorically noted.

The archives of the Burbank area can be traced urge on to the Tongva people, the original people of the area, who lived in the region for thousands of years previously the initiation of Europeans. In the late 1700s and forward 1800s, Spanish explorers and mission priests arrived in the area. The city of Burbank occupies house that was past part of two Spanish and Mexican-era colonial estate grants, the 36,400-acre (147 km²) Rancho San Rafael, granted to Jose Maria Verdugo by the Spanish Bourbon dealing out in 1784, and the 4,063-acre (16.44 km) Rancho Providencia created in 1821. This area was the scene of a military achievement which resulted in the unseating of the Spanish Governor of California, and his replacement by the Mexican leader Pio Pico.