Burleson, Texas
Burleson, Texas Flag of Burleson, Texas Location of Burleson, Texas Location of Burleson, Texas Burleson (/ b rl s n/ bur-li-s n) is a town/city in Johnson and Tarrant counties in the U.S.
Renfro at the site of what is now called "Old Town" Burleson.
As part of the agreement, Renfro titled the town Burleson, with respect to his teacher Rufus Columbus Burleson, the president of Baylor University.
The Burleson Post Office opened in 1882, inside a retail establishment, as was common for small suburbs at the time.
Jones, had stayed in Burleson and opened a water works for the town, drilling a deep well that provided dozens of hydrants for the residents, but they were not sufficient for extinguishing the fire.
By the end of the 1800s, Burleson was an ongoing non-urban town, with farms all around, schools, a grocery store, cotton gins and grist mills, a general store, a druggist, a bank, even a jeweler.
The Eumathian Club jubilated its centennial in 1999, has many notable accomplishments in its history, and is still active in Burleson to this day.
Taylor, an region farmer who retired to a Burleson home said to be equipped with the town's first in-home bathtub.
In 1909 the Texas Legislature passed a bill forming the Burleson Independent School District.
In 1911 the Northern Texas Traction Company decided to install an interurban line between Fort Worth and Cleburne, with Burleson as one stop along the way.
The interurban line provided for the first time two very meaningful things to Burleson: easy access to Fort Worth and Cleburne, and electricity.
The old drugstore/station still exists, as the Burleson Heritage Museum at the Burleson Visitor's Center, as well as two of the interurban cars from that era.
Burleson was incorporated.
The 1920 census shows the populace of Burleson to be 241.
Due to the increasing popularity of automobiles, combined with the Great Depression, the interurban line between Fort Worth, through Burleson, to Cleburne closed in 1931.
In 1940 the populace decreased to 573, as citizens had left Burleson amid the Great Depression to find jobs wherever they could.
In 1950 the populace recovered to 791, and interval to 2,345 in 1960, as Burleson started to turn into a suburb of Fort Worth, perhaps partly due to the opening of Interstate 35 through Burleson that year.
In 1990 the populace of Burleson was 16,113, in 2000 the populace interval to 20,976, and in 2010 there were 36,690 citizens in Burleson. Burleson is positioned at 32 32 9 N 97 19 38 W (32.535939, -97.327257). Burleson According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Burleson has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. July and August are typically the hottest months, with highs averaging around 95 F and lows around 72 F.
Burleson is served primarily by the Burleson Independent School District (BISD),the Joshua Independent School District (JISD), the Everman Independent School District (EISD), and a small part of the Mansfield Independent School District (MISD).
BISD high schools include Burleson High School and Burleson Centennial High School.
The Burleson Higher Education Center provides a small-town ground for Hill College and Texas Wesleyan University.
There were 7,610 homeholds of which 41.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 64.0% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 21.4% are classified as non-families as stated to the United States Enumeration Bureau.
The age distribution of the town/city is 29.1% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 31.9% from 25 to 44, 21.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
There are 1,300 businesses in Burleson which employ a total of 10,500 citizens .
According to Burleson's 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 Burleson ISD 1,603 3 City of Burleson 385 Fort Worth Spinks Airport, on the northern edge of Burleson town/city limits, serves Burleson's small-town general aviation needs.
Burleson is about 40 miles from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport via primary highways.
Burleson Century (1 ed.).
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Burleson city, Texas".
Climate Summary for Burleson, Texas City of Burleson CAFR Retrieved 2015-07-08 City of Burleson official website Burleson History Online Municipalities and communities of Johnson County, Texas, United States
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