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Burke, TX - History
We would like to provide the residents of Burke a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Burke Home page. The Burke Home page provides as much information as possible on Burke. Knowing Burke’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Burke’s Home page, you will also find Burke’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Burke has a population of 728. 49.9% of Burke’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.1 are female. 60.6% of Burke is married and 86.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $119,250, and the average rent is $932. Household median income in Burke is $39,773, and the individual median income is $28,824. Burke’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.4%), Hispanic(23.9%), Other(4.8%), Multiple(3.2%), Black(1.4%), Asian(0.3%).
Burke was founded in 1881 when construction of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway reached the western edge of Bradley Prairie. The town was originally named Rhodes for general store owner W. R. Rhodes and postmaster H. R. Rhodes, but about 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 received a post 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 enlarged to three rooms within a few years.
Voters approved a bond in 1910 to erect a brick schoolhouse for grades one through seven. The brick building was torn down in 1935 and replaced with a larger schoolhouse built with Works Progress Administration funds. The Burke Independent School District consolidated with the Diboll schools in 1964.Burke was incorporated as a city in 1966, and a municipal water system was constructed.
Burke had a population of 322 in 1980 and 314 in 1990.
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