Mound City, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Mound City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66056. The Survey maps it on the Mound City quadrangle. 647 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 873 feet above sea level.
On record in Mound City
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Linn County Courthouselisted 1974
Mine Creek Bridgelisted 1983- Old Linn County Jaillisted 1978
Population over time
2 figuresMound City fell from 694 to 647 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 694 | |
| 2020 | 647 | -47 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Mound City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Butler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Mound City between 2010 and 2020, burning about 1,369 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 579 |
| 5 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 131 |
| 6 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 350 acres | Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge | LEE ROAD |
| 31 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Linn County | W 900 AND JENNISON |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Linn County | 116 |
| 15 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 600 acres | Linn County | LNX-14-00144 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mound City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mound City Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
34 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mound City in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | $50,000 | Trees and power lines were downed by severe thunderstorm winds. |
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | $50,000 | A downburst produced an estimated 70-knot wind that destroyed a garage and barn, along with stripping a number of limbs off of trees. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | $5,000 | Barns were damaged by high winds at Mound City and trees uprooted near Blue Mound. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph at Mound City. Many limbs and countless limbs were downed in La Cygne. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | $100 | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. The winds blew a roof off of a small outbuilding across a street. Small tree limbs were also broken. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | $100 | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. The wind blew a roof off a small outbuilding and across a street. Small tree limbs were also broken. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Mound City | - | Hail up to ping pong ball size reported at Mound City Lake. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Mound City | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported in Mound City. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | - | Measured wind gust of 68 mph in Mound City from a personal weather station. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | - | Shingles were blown off of a roof near Mound City. There were multiple power outages across the county as a result of the strong winds. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | - | Several power lines were down in Mound City. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | - | A tree was blown over just north of Mound City on Highway 7. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Mound City | - | Flash flooding was reported in Linn County, 5 miles northwest of Mound City. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Mound City | - | Golfball-size hail was reported during a severe thunderstorm 8 miles north of Mound City and 4 miles east of Centerville. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Mound City | - | Thunderstorms produced 2 to 6 inch rains over Linn County which resulted in areas of flash flooding. A half a foot of water covered Highway 31 a mile west of Mound City. Linn County Emergency Management officials reported 1 to 2 feet of water on several gravel roads in the Mound City area. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | - | The Linn County Sheriff Office reported trees blown down from thunderstorm winds in Mound City and Pleasanton. |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Mound City | - | The Linn County Sheriff's office reported several county gravel roads flooded in Southern Linn County about 5 miles south of Mound City. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound City | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Mound City | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critzer | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Pleasanton | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Mantey | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Farlinville | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Prescott | 8.3 miles | 15 | |
| Boicourt | 10.1 miles | 16 | |
| Trading Post | 10.1 miles | 15 | |
| Blue Mound | 10.8 miles | 16 |
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 Mound City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2232819 | The 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 477909. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.







