Burnham, Maine

Waldo county. It lies 37 miles N.E. from Augusta and about 30 N.W. from Belfast. It is bounded S.W. by Sebasticook river, and E. by Troy. Incorporated, 1824. Population, 1837, 602. It produced 2,297 bushels of wheat in 1837.

Hayward's New England Gazetteer (1839)