Burke is a city in southwestern Angelina County, Texas, United States. The population was 737 at the 2010 census.

Burke was founded in 1881 subsequently construction of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway reached the western edge of Bradley Prairie. The town was originally named Rhodes for general hoard owner W. R. Rhodes and postmaster H. R. Rhodes, but not quite 1885 it was renamed for Edmund L. Burke, a railroad employee who directed the railroad survey.

By 1885 Burke had three sawmills, three cotton gins, a church, and a school. In 1886 it traditional a make known office, which remained there until 1955. By 1888 it had a larger school, three general stores, a drugstore, a sawmill, a dentist and watchmaker, and a Farmers’ Alliance store. In 1897 Burke had an estimated population of 650. By 1904 Burke’s population had declined to 161, due to the rise of Lufkin, eight miles north, as an industrial center for the county. However, by 1915 the population had risen to 200, and by 1925 it reached 300. The Burke Methodist Church was organized in 1899–1900, and the First Baptist Church of Burke in 1905.

Education was a priority at Burke. The first school, a one-room structure, was better to three rooms within a few years. Voters approved a sticking to in 1910 to erect a brick schoolhouse for grades one through seven. The brick building was torn all along in 1935 and replaced in the same way as a larger schoolhouse built later than Works Progress Administration funds. The Burke Independent School District consolidated in imitation of the Diboll schools in 1964.