Bunker Hill, KS

Bunker Hill is a city in Russell County, Kansas, United States. The 2020 census counted 103 residents. Corbett and Valentine Harbaugh, leaders of a colony from Ohio, founded Bunker Hill at a site on the Kansas Pacific Railway in the summer of 1871. The settlement received its name from a Butterfield Overland Despatch station, built in 1865, that had preceded it on the site. The Bunker Hill Museum, located in an old limestone church one block east of Main Street, displays documents and artifacts from the community's history. Bunker Hill is the setting and namesake of the 2008 film Bunker Hill.

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The district high school is Russell High School, located in Russell. Bunker Hill's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Kansas setting. The local scoop is how Bunker Hill's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Bunker Hill is located in north-central Kansas, 108 miles northwest of Wichita and 221 miles west of Kansas City. Bunker Hill includes the Bunker Hill Museum.