Burke is a town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.

[2] The unincorporated communities of Burke and Seminary Springs are in the town.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 19.5 square miles (50.5 km2), all of it land.

At the 2000 census there were 2,990 people, 1,148 households, and 862 families living in the town.

There were 1,208 housing units at an average density of 62.0 per square mile (23.9/km2).