Burden Falls is a waterfall on Burden Creek in Pope County, Illinois, in the Interior Plateau region. It lies about 8.3 miles south of Carrier Mills and roughly 65.8 miles southwest of Evansville as the crow flies.
Its height has not been recorded in the source data. By form it is a horsetail, where the water keeps some contact with the bedrock as it falls.
The Interior Plateau is a rolling limestone landscape of pasture, oak-hickory woodland and cedar glades in Kentucky and Tennessee, riddled with springs, sinkholes and caves. Waterfalls drop over limestone ledges and in karst valleys.
It is the only recorded waterfall in Pope County. Cedar Falls, a plunge waterfall, is about 6.1 miles away. Happy Hollow Falls, a plunge waterfall, is about 18.2 miles away. Borks Waterfall, a plunge waterfall, is about 20.8 miles away.
Burden Falls is located at 37.5637° N, 88.6425° W. The listing is based on the World Waterfall Database, one of the sources compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey in its inventory of waterfalls and rapids of the conterminous United States. The creek name is confirmed against the federal Geographic Names Information System. The exact position has not yet been verified on aerial imagery, so treat the map pin as approximate. Details on trails, parking and access have not been documented for this waterfall yet.