Bunker Hill, Kansas

Bunker Hill is a city in Russell County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 95.HistoryJ. B. 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. County commissioners declared Bunker Hill the county seat in 1872, but, two years later, a popular vote moved the seat to nearby Russell. Many Bunker Hill residents moved with it, stunting the growth and development of the town. By 1883, a small business community emerged, including a hotel, flour mill, and several shops.GeographyBunker Hill is located at, at an elevation of 1,860 feet . Located in north-central Kansas, Bunker Hill is 108 miles northwest of Wichita and 221 miles west of Kansas City. Located 1 mile north of Interstate 70, it is roughly 8 miles east of Russell, the county seat.The community lies in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains approximately 5 miles north of the Smoky Hill River and 7 miles south of the Saline River. Wilson Lake lies 6 miles to the northeast.