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Burney, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 3217
Housing Units (2000): 1420
Land area (2000): 5.168850 sq. miles (13.387260 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.168850 sq. miles (13.387260 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09122
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 40.880655 N, 121.666750 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 96013
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Burney

Burney may refer to:

Burney (surname)

Burney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Ansar Burney (born 1956), Pakistani human rights activist
  • Cecil Burney (1858–1929), British admiral
  • Charles Burney (disambiguation), several people
  • Christopher Burney (1917–1980), British spy during WWII.
  • Dennistoun Burney (1888–1968), British engineer and inventor
  • Edward Francis Burney (1760–1848), English artist and illustrator
  • Frances Burney (1752–1840), English novelist and diarist
  • Henry Burney (1792–1845), British agent and ambassador of the East India Company (19th century)
  • James Burney (1750–1821), British admiral
  • Sarah Burney (1772–1844), novelist, known as S.H. Burney
  • S. M. H. Burney (Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney, 1923–2014), Indian civil servant
  • Venetia Burney (1918–2009), namer of the dwarf planet Pluto
Burney (hill)

Burney is a hill in Cumbria, England, to the north of the A5092 road between Greenodd and Broughton-in-Furness. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. It reaches and has a trig point at the summit. It is also known as Great Burney, and a slight rise on the north ridge is named Little Burney.

Usage examples of "burney".

Maintaining his maximum height, trying to imitate in Wegan the style and manner of Burney and others who addressed council meetings at Hearthome, he began.

Max-ine got conspicuously quiet, hoping no doubt to pick up some information she could pass along to John Robert and Mary Burney next chance she had.

Admiral Burney - Captain Burney then - lent me one wrote by his sister when we were coming back with a slow convoy from the West Indies.