Burbank is a town in western Osage County, Oklahoma, United States.

The founder was Anthony "Gabe" Carlton, a mixed-blood Osage and a Chouteau family descendant, who owned the townsite and named it after the artist Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858-1949) who spent his life painting the Indians of over 125 tribes.

[5] Several major petroleum companies participated in the boom of the Burbank Field.

Leases of oil land were obtained from the Osage Indians, usually by auction under the "Million Dollar Elm" tree in Pawhuska, the county seat and capital of the Osage Indians.

Colonel Ellsworth Walters was the auctioneer and more than a million dollars was often bid for the mineral rights to 160 acre (65 ha) tracts in the Burbank Field.

[6] The Osage tribe and its members received $45 million in royalties from the Burbank field in the 1920s.

[7] The Osage, unlike many tribes, had retained collective ownership of mineral rights on their former reservation.

Osage with a full headright (those on the 1906 tribal roll) received up to $15,000 each annually in oil royalties, the equivalent of more than $150,000 in 2010 dollars.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), all land.