Burbank is a town in western Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 141 at the 2010 census, a 9 percent grow less from the figure of 155 recorded in 2000.

Burbank was founded in 1903 upon the Osage Reservation. The founder was Anthony “Gabe” Carlton, a mixed-blood Osage and a Chouteau relations descendant, who owned the townsite and named it after the player Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858-1949) who spent his activity painting the Indians of exceeding 125 tribes.

Burbank had about 200 residents and an economy based upon farming and ranching until May 1920 next E.W. Marland discovered petroleum northeast of the town. Burbank became a boom town, and additional towns in the area such as Whizbang sprang up overnight to shout insults the wealthy petroleum resources. The Burbank auditorium was mostly located in Osage County but extended into Kay County. The Burbank field lengthy over an area about 20 miles (32 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide. Burbank speedily grew into a town of 3,000 people.

Several major petroleum companies participated in the name-calling of the Burbank Field. Leases of oil land were obtained from the Osage Indians, usually by auction below the “Million Dollar Elm” tree in Pawhuska, the county seat and capital of the Osage Indians. Colonel Ellsworth Walters was the auctioner and higher than a million dollars was often bid for the mineral rights to 160 acre (65 ha) tracts in the Burbank Field. Rich and well-known oilmen such as Marland, Frank Phillips, L. E. Phillips, Waite Phillips, and William G. Skelly stood in the shade of the Elm tree and bid in the auctions.
Oil production in the Burbank arena expanded from 134,408 barrels in 1920 to a pinnacle production of 26,206,741 barrels in 1923. Production dropped by one-half in 1926 and by 1930 the boom get older was over. Burbank’s population dropped to 372 in 1930. The value of the 160 million barrels the Burbank sports ground produced during its heyday was more or less 286 million dollars.