BURBANK

city, Los Angeles county, California, U.S., in the San Fernando Valley. Part of Rancho San Rafael and La Providencia, it was laid out in 1887 by the Providencia Land, Water and Development Company and named for David Burbank, a Los Angeles dentist who had established a sheep ranch there in 1867. An early truck-manufacturing and motion-picture centre, its growth was rapid during the 1940s with the urban expansion of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and the development of the Lockheed aircraft and aerospace industries. Walt Disney Productions, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, and the National Broadcasting Company maintain television and movie studios in Burbank. Inc. city, 1911. Pop. (1990) 93,643.