Burneyville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Love County, Oklahoma, United States.
[3] Burneyville and Love County were named for prominent Chickasaw people who settled in the area in the early 1840s as part of the Federal removal of the tribe from northern Mississippi to Indian Territory.
The county was named for Overton Love, an esteemed judge of the Chickasaw Nation court who had arrived in Indian Territory in 1843, one year prior to the Burney family.
[4] But in its heyday through the first half of the 20th century, the townsite included a hotel, grocery, general merchandise store, blacksmith, druggist, and two doctors.
[4] The 73430 ZIP Code covers 93 square miles (240 km2) of mostly farms and ranches in the lush bottomlands of the Red River.
Love County has been called "the shopping mall of the world for quarter horses" in reference to its abundance of top equine stock and training specialists in reining, cutting, roping, pleasure, and barrel racing events.
More than fifty percent of Burneyville residents live 2 miles (3 km) west of the post office, at Falconhead Resort & Country Club.
Among them were LPGA Hall of Famers Patty Berg, Betty Jameson, Betsy Rawls, Louise Suggs, Kathy Whitworth, Mickey Wright, and Babe Zaharias; and men's majors winners Jack Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd, Tommy Aaron, Charles Coody, Bob Goalby, Gay Brewer, Don January, Peter Thomson, Tony Lema, Kel Nagle, Jack Fleck, Al Geiberger, Byron Nelson, and Bobby Nichols.
Amateur champions Susie Maxwell Berning, Charles Coe, and Labron Harris Jr., were frequent playing guests of the Turners at what was their private hunting, fishing, and golfing retreat.
[14] The layout underwent a redesign by golf course architect Robert Trent Jones, Sr., and a name-change to Falconhead Resort & Country Club, in 1970.
Three miles southeast of the Burneyville post office, agricultural research takes place at a demonstration farm of the renowned Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, one of the top 50 grantmaking philanthropies in the United States.
Before striking it rich in the oil fields of southern Oklahoma and east Texas in the 1920s, the couple had taught school at Burneyville.