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Bunker Hill, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67626. The Survey maps it on the Dorrance NW quadrangle. 103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,860 feet above sea level.

Bunker Hill within Russell County

Population over time

2 figures

Bunker Hill grew from 95 to 103 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201095
2020103+8 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

15 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Bunker Hill between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,230 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresRussell County17042
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service15034
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresRussell County17044
29 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRussell County17039
20 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresRussell County17036
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Service18038
10 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRussell County170024

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

57 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bunker Hill in 57 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 27 hail, 23 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2004Tornado (F0)Bunker Hill$75,000This was a second tornado that hit the same farmstead. The first one hit the barn across the road, and this one did some damage to trees and tore a few shingles off the roof of the home. Some small barns were also damaged.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Bunker Hill$50,000Damage caused to barn.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill$10,000Wind damage was reported at the Bear House Truckstop. Nine vehicles lost side windows due to wind-blown gravel. The estimated 70 mph winds also moved a breezeway wall at the truckstop, and moved an empty ice machine 20 yards into a trailer. Fuel pumps were twisted as well.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill$5,000Power lines were downed in the Bunker Hill vicinity.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill$2,000A wall and garage door of a farmers shop were bowed in by the estimated 70 mph winds.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill$1,000All of the north-facing windows are broken out at a farm. There were also large tree limbs down.
May 1993HailBunker Hill$500no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-This gust was measured at a Kansas Mesonet site.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-This gust was measured by a Kansas Mesonet site.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-Bunker Hill Mesonet measured a 72 mph wind gust.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-A 93 mph wind gust was recorded by the Kansas State Mesonet near Bunker Hill.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-Kansas State Mesonet recorded a wind gust of 64 mph.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-Bunker Hill Mesonet station measured a 72 mph gust.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-Measured wind gust from the Kansas State Mesonet 3 miles northeast of Bunker Hill.
July 2023Tornado (EF0)Bunker Hill-A brief tornado moved across two farmsteads causing minor damage to trees and major damage to a barn as it collapsed onto its foundation. Debris from one homestead was also strewn across the property and blown up against and wedged into a metal pipe fence. The majority of damage was noted on the northern periphery of the circulation.
June 2022Tornado (EFU)Bunker Hill-Brief touchdown in open country.
June 2022HailBunker Hill-A report of half dollar sized hail west of Wilson Lake.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-A semitrailer and camper were blown over on Interstate 70 near mile marker 195 according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.
September 2021Heavy RainBunker Hill-A Coop observer in Bunker Hill reported 3.10 inches of heavy rainfall.
June 2020HailBunker Hill-Fire department reported to dispatch there was ping pong ball to golf ball sized hail.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-The report of tree damage was courtesy KWCH.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-No damage was reported.
August 2013FloodBunker Hill-Minor street flooding was noted and the ditches were running full.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Bunker Hill-Occurred over open country.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-Winds were estimated around 60 mph.
May 2008HailBunker Hill-Nickel hail covered the ground.
September 2004HailBunker Hill-CO-OP observer.
September 2001HailBunker Hill-KRSL Radio.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-Several large tree limbs downed.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-no account filed
May 2016HailBunker Hill-no account filed
April 2012HailBunker Hill-no account filed
May 2011HailBunker Hill-no account filed
May 2011HailBunker Hill-no account filed
August 2011HailBunker Hill-no account filed
May 2011HailBunker Hill-no account filed
April 2010HailBunker Hill-no account filed
May 2008HailBunker Hill-no account filed
May 2007HailBunker Hill-no account filed
May 2007HailBunker Hill-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-no account filed
May 2004HailBunker Hill-no account filed
August 2004HailBunker Hill-no account filed
April 2002HailBunker Hill-no account filed
June 2002HailBunker Hill-no account filed
June 2002HailBunker Hill-no account filed
September 2001HailBunker Hill-no account filed
September 2001HailBunker Hill-no account filed
September 2001HailBunker Hill-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-no account filed
May 1999HailBunker Hill-no account filed
May 1999HailBunker Hill-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-no account filed
August 1998HailBunker Hill-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindBunker Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Russell County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Homer5.0 miles14
Dorrance6.4 miles14
Russell8.4 miles13
Balta11.2 miles13
Lucas15.3 miles13
Milberger15.8 miles13
Luray16.2 miles13
Gorham16.9 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Bunker HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2031026The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 475228. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.