Burnside is an unincorporated community in Webster County, Iowa, United States.

[3] Present-day Burnside was laid out as a town named Buchanan on June 16, 1856.

The conductor of the first Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway train passing through town in 1882 was a friend of Ambrose Burnside, who had recently died.

[6] It is located in the Southeast Valley Community School District, which formed in 2023.

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