The townsite was gazetted in 1928.[2] The name is an Aboriginal word of unknown meaning, and was suggested by the Wongan Hills Road Board in 1927. The original spelling was to have been Borrikin.[3]
Railways
Burakin is the junction for the Amery to Kalannie railway line and the branch railway line to Bonnie Rock. The line was completed on 27 April 1931.[4] Despite aspirations for the railway in the 1930s.[5] services between Beacon and Bonnie Rock were under threat of suspension in 1953,[6][7] and closed in the same year.[8]
Earthquakes
In 2000 and 2001 Burakin was the epicentre of a series of earthquakes,[9][10][11] now known as the Burakin Swarm – a significant series of seismographic events that are considered important in understanding the South West Seismic Zone.[12][13][14]
^Western Australia. Department of Lands and Surveys (1929), Townsite of Burakin, Ninghan District, Dept. of Lands & Surveys W.A, retrieved 21 August 2022
^"BURAKIN-BONNIE ROCK". The Farmers' Weekly. Vol. 7, no. 327. Western Australia. 12 November 1953. p. 3. Retrieved 27 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^Australia. Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources (30 June 2002), "Geoscience Australia (30 June 2002)", Annual Report (539 of 2002), Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources: 199, ISSN1443-8267
^"Shaking spot quakes way to seismic record", Australasian Business Intelligence, COMTEX News Network, Inc: 1008364i9825, 30 December 2001, ISSN1320-6680