Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Burlingame, CA

Burlingame is a city in San Mateo County on the San Francisco Peninsula that incorporated on June 6, 1908.

Banker William C. Ralston named the town in 1868 for his friend Anson Burlingame, the U.S. ambassador to China, who had visited the area only once, in 1866.

Much of Burlingame's land was once owned by merchant William Davis Merry Howard, who planted many of the eucalyptus trees that still shade its streets.

The exclusive Burlingame Country Club opened in 1893, drawing wealthy San Franciscans to build country estates in the area.

Burlingame grew rapidly after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, as displaced residents moved down the Peninsula.

Burlingame's 1894 train station was the first train station designated a California State Registered Landmark, in 1971, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

That historic station now houses the Burlingame-Hillsborough History Museum, which opened in 2008.

The neighboring community of Easton was annexed into Burlingame in 1910 as the Easton Addition.

The 2020 census counted 31,386 people in Burlingame, up from 28,806 in 2010.

Burlingame has about 12,266 households, with a median household income of roughly $174,000.