Burrton, an incorporated town of Harvey county, is located 18 miles west of Newton, at the junction of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the St. Louis & San Francisco railroads, which makes it an important shipping point for a rich agricultural district, the chief articles of export being grain, hay and live stock. Burrton has two banks, two weekly newspapers (the Graphic and the Grit), an international money order postoffice with four rural routes, several churches, a graded public school, an opera house, a number of first class mercantile houses, telegraph, telephone and express service, and in 1910 reported a population of 689.