Burketown

town in Queensland, Australia
Place town Q1016404
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Burketown

Summary

Burketown is a town[1]. Burketown ranks in the top 5% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (304 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Burketown is located in Shire of Burke[3].
  • Burketown is located in Queensland[4].
  • Burketown is located in Shire of Carpentaria[5].
  • Burketown is in the country of Australia[6].
  • Burketown's instance of is recorded as town[7].
  • Burketown's shares border with is recorded as Gregory[8].
  • Burketown's shares border with is recorded as Nicholson[9].
  • Burketown's shares border with is recorded as Carpentaria[10].
  • Robert O'Hara Burke is named after Burketown[11].
  • Burketown's postal code is recorded as 4830[12].
  • Burketown's Commons category is recorded as Burketown, Queensland[13].
  • Burketown's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+10:00[14].
  • 1865 marks the founding of Burketown[15].
  • Burketown's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -17.716666666667, 'lon': 139.56666666667}[16].
  • Burketown's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Burketown[17].
  • Burketown has a population of {'amount': '+202'}[18].
  • Burketown has a population of {'amount': '+238'}[19].
  • Burketown has a population of {'amount': '+204'}[20].
  • Burketown has a population of {'amount': '+167'}[21].
  • Burketown's capital of is recorded as Shire of Burke[22].
  • Burketown's female population is recorded as {'amount': '+108'}[23].
  • Burketown's male population is recorded as {'amount': '+133'}[24].
  • Burketown's associated electoral district is recorded as Traeger[25].
  • Burketown's associated electoral district is recorded as Kennedy[26].

Body

Geography

Burketown is in the country of Australia[6]. Located in include Shire of Burke[3], a local government area of Queensland[27], in Australia[28]; Queensland[4], a state of Australia[29], in Australia[30], founded in 1859[31]; and Shire of Carpentaria[5], a local government area of Queensland[32], in Australia[33].

Physical Characteristics

Population counts include {'amount': '+202'}[18], {'amount': '+238'}[19], {'amount': '+204'}[20], and {'amount': '+167'}[21].

Designation and Status

Burketown's instance of is recorded as town[7].

History and Context

1865 marks the founding of Burketown[15]. Robert O'Hara Burke is named after Burketown[11].

Why It Matters

Burketown ranks in the top 5% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (304 views/month).[2] Burketown has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [9] . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [10] . linked.data.gov.au. linked.data.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [3] . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] . quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [5] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . censusdata.abs.gov.au. censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . censusdata.abs.gov.au. censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . abs.gov.au. Retrieved . abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . abs.gov.au. abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . censusdata.abs.gov.au. censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . censusdata.abs.gov.au. censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 26d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after Robert O'Hara Burke
    Female population {'amount': '+108'}
    Country Australia
    Named after
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/45396|batch #45396]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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