Burton City is an unincorporated community in Wayne County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.

[2][3] Burton City lies mainly on flat plains and is a little bit over halfway between the villages of Dalton and Marshallville.

The town is near Orrville, and is considered by some online mapping services and websites to be a suburb of the city.

[7] Burton City has no maritime ports, though it is bisected east-west by freight railroad tracks presently owned and operated by Norfolk Southern.

[8] Burton City is bisected north-south by Ohio State Route 94, the main road through, in and out of the unincorporated community as well as giving access to Interstate 76 fifteen miles to the north and U.S. Route 30 three miles to the south.