Bunker Hill Kansas Map

About Bunker Hill, Kansas

Bunker Hill is a locality in Russell County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 103. The population density is 28.7 people per km². Bunker Hill is located at 38.8758°N, 98.7040°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bunker Hill is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67626.

Bunker Hill emerges from the expansive plains as a quiet intersection of earth and sky, where the horizon stretches thin and taut like a pulled thread. It lies 33.5 miles east of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 90°T), and is situated 8.5 miles east of Russell. The land here is defined by a slow, rhythmic inclination, a topography of subtle rises that catch the golden, slant light of late afternoon, casting long shadows across fields that have been worked for generations. To the north, the terrain softens toward the basin of Wilson Lake, while the persistent, dry breath of the wind sighs through the sparse, silver-barked cottonwoods that line the banks of Cedar Creek. On the clearest days, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Hills marks the western edge of the world, a faint reminder of the geological theater that shaped these vast, open reaches.

Bunker Hill carries the weight of a frontier history in its weathered limestone foundations and the deliberate pace of its quiet streets. The local economy remains tethered to the pulse of the soil, with agriculture acting as the primary language of the region, though the proximity of Kansas Wildlife and Parks Area #1 offers a different kind of endurance, preserving the native prairie as it existed before the plow. Life in Bunker Hill moves in accordance with the seasons, from the frantic, dust-choked urgency of the harvest to the profound, icy stillness of winter, when the sky turns a stark, iron gray. There is a singular, unadorned beauty in how the inhabitants remain anchored to this expanse, finding a steady, quiet dignity in the persistence of the wheat and the unending patience of the prairie.

About This Bunker Hill Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bunker Hill, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.875844, -98.703966. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Bunker Hill includes the ZIP code (67626), telephone area code (785), county seat of Russell County (Russell), and school district assignment (Russell County Unified School District 407).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.