Burns is a town in Laramie County, Wyoming, United States.

[6] Burns is located at 41°11′31″N 104°21′29″W / 41.19194°N 104.35806°W / 41.19194; -104.35806 (41.191962, -104.358163),[7] approximately 25 miles (40 km) east of Cheyenne.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.05 square miles (7.90 km2), all land.

About 7.3% of families and 14.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 26.0% of those under the age of eighteen and 12.8% of those 65 or over.

Public education in the town of Burns is provided by Laramie County School District #2.

[11] Originally, Burns was a siding with a water tank on the Union Pacific Railroad.

[12] The community of Burns was conceived and marketed as a German-Lutheran settlement named New Berlin[13] and initially platted as the Town of Luther in 1907.

[14] The original name was given by settlers of German Ancestry in honor of Martin Luther.

Burns was the center of the Golden Prairie District promoted by the James R. Carpenter's Federal Land & Securities Co. formed in 1905.