Burleson ( BUR-li-sən) is a city in Johnson and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is a suburb of Fort Worth. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 36,690, and in 2019 it had an estimated population of 48,225.

The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, known as “the Katy”, extended its encourage from Denison to Waco. In 1880 the segment from Fort Worth to Alvarado was monster laid out, and a midway depot was needed. Grenville M. Dodge, representing the railroad, purchased land for the depot and a town surrounding it from Rev. Henry C. Renfro at the site of what is now called “Old Town” Burleson. As allocation of the agreement, Renfro named the town “Burleson”, in tribute of his university Rufus Columbus Burleson, the president of Baylor University. The first lot was sold on October 10, 1880, the date now considered the city’s “founding day”.

The Burleson Post Office opened in 1882, inside a retail establishment, as was common for small towns at the time. On February 20, 1895, a flare burned all along most of the concern district, along bearing in mind several houses. One of the Katy workers, J. C. Jones, had stayed in Burleson and opened a water works for the town, drilling a deep competently that provided dozens of hydrants for the residents, but they were not enough to crush the fire. By the terminate of the 1800s, Burleson was a blooming rural town, with farms everything around, schools, a grocery store, cotton gins and grist mills, a general store, a druggist, a bank, and a jeweler. In 1899, a organization of nine women formed a help for cultural advancement and called it the Eumathian Club. The women acquired books, loaned them, and held readings, discussions, and music recitals.

In 1909 the Texas Legislature passed a version forming the Burleson Independent School District. Construction began in 1912 of the Northern Texas Traction Company interurban line amongst Fort Worth and Cleburne, with Burleson as a stop along the way. The first day of minister to was September 1, 1912, with 1,200 passengers upon the ten passenger runs that day. Two freight runs per daylight were made as well. The interurban parentage provided for the first times two enormously important things to Burleson: easy right of entry to Fort Worth and Cleburne, and electricity. The interurban station was operated out of a drugstore, whose governor became ticket master, and who served travelers pastries and soda from the soda fountain. The old-fashioned drugstore/station nevertheless exists, as the Burleson Heritage Museum at the Burleson Visitor’s Center, as accomplish two of the interurban cars.