Burns is a town in Laramie County, in the Cheyenne metro area.   Burns, Wyoming, was also an early railroad siding until 1907. In that year, some German Lutherans established a town next to the siding. The Lutherans attempted to name the newly formed town after Martin Luther. By 1910, the area gained enough population to warrant a post office. The same year, the Union Pacific constructed a depot. The depot, similar to many stations along the line, was a prefabricated structure, with waiting room, office, freight room, and quarters for the agent. The question of the name again arose. The railroad in its dispatches had continued to use the name "Burns." Thus, the older name which had been in use by the railroad since its construction, was used for the post office, the name having come available for postal use when a post office of the same name in present day Sublette County closed. By 1920, Burns had achieved a population of about 300. Burns was apparently named by the railroad after J. J. Burns an early railroad telegrapher. Burns worked his way from telegrapher to operator, assistant store keeper and ultimately to purchasing agent for the Union Pacific.