Gorham, KS

Gorham is a city in Russell County, Kansas, United States. The 2020 census counted 376 residents. Beaten to the settlement of Wilson, Kansas by Bohemian colonists, Pennsylvania Dutch settlers from Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania established a community on the Kansas Pacific Railway at the future site of Gorham in April 1872. Elijah Dodge Gorham, a settler from Illinois, gave the town its name when he platted it in 1879. Gorham was both a setting and filming location of the 1973 film Paper Moon. The district high school is Russell High School. In Gorham, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Gorham, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. Gorham is located in west-central Kansas, approximately 121 miles northwest of Wichita and 237 miles west of Kansas City, and 355 miles east of Denver.