Burden, an incorporated city of the third class in Cowley county, is a station on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. in Silver Creek township 17 miles northeast of Winfield, the county seat. Burden has a bank, a weekly newspaper (the Times), a flour mill, an international money order postoffice with three rural routes, telegraph, telephone and express service, a large retail trade, Baptist, Methodist and Christian churches, good public schools, and is the principal shipping point for a rich agricultural district. The population in 1910 was 424.