Burkburnett is a city in Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Wichita Falls, Texas metropolitan statistical area. Its population was 10,811 at the 2010 census. The community newspaper, the Burkburnett Informer/Star, is published each Thursday.

Originally arranged by ranchers as into the future as 1856, this community was known by some locals as Nesterville. By 1880, the town had a small store subsequently a population of 132. From 1882 until 1903, a name office operated there below the designation Gilbert, named after the North Texas opportunist Mabel Gilbert. In 1906, a nearby rich rancher named Samuel Burk Burnett sold higher than 16,000 acres (65 km) of his estate in northern Wichita County to a help of investors who were seeking to extend into the wheat-growing area of Western Oklahoma the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, one of the Frank Kell/Joseph A. Kemp properties based in Wichita Falls.

Within Burnett’s former land close the railroad, lots were auctioned off the afterward year and a read out office was established. The town was named Burkburnett by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who visited the area for a wolf hunt that was hosted by the wealthy rancher Burnett. In 1912, oil was discovered west of the town, attracting thousands to the area, and by 1918, about 20,000 people had settled in this area the oilfield. This part of the town’s chronicles was chronicled in the film, Boom Town with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy. The Great Depression had a negative impact on the town’s population, which was boosted over in 1941 as Sheppard Air Force Base was conventional nearby.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Burkburnett has a total Place of 9.5 square miles (24.6 km), all of it land.