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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.

Mound City within Linn County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mound 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.

YearPeople Change
2010694
2020647-47 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

18 since 2010

Regional 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service579
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service131
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined350 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeLEE ROAD
31 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresLinn CountyW 900 AND JENNISON
18 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresLinn County116
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresLinn CountyLNX-14-00144

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mound City Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

34 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMound City$50,000Trees and power lines were downed by severe thunderstorm winds.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindMound City$50,000A downburst produced an estimated 70-knot wind that destroyed a garage and barn, along with stripping a number of limbs off of trees.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMound City$5,000Barns were damaged by high winds at Mound City and trees uprooted near Blue Mound.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindMound City$1,000Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph at Mound City. Many limbs and countless limbs were downed in La Cygne.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMound City$100Thunderstorm 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 2013Thunderstorm WindMound City$100Thunderstorm 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 2025HailMound City-Hail up to ping pong ball size reported at Mound City Lake.
May 2024HailMound City-Golf ball sized hail was reported in Mound City.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMound City-Measured wind gust of 68 mph in Mound City from a personal weather station.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindMound 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 2015Thunderstorm WindMound City-Several power lines were down in Mound City.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMound City-A tree was blown over just north of Mound City on Highway 7. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2011Flash FloodMound City-Flash flooding was reported in Linn County, 5 miles northwest of Mound City.
June 1998HailMound City-Golfball-size hail was reported during a severe thunderstorm 8 miles north of Mound City and 4 miles east of Centerville.
June 1998Flash FloodMound 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 1998Thunderstorm WindMound City-The Linn County Sheriff Office reported trees blown down from thunderstorm winds in Mound City and Pleasanton.
June 1997Flash FloodMound 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 2011HailMound City-no account filed
April 2011HailMound City-no account filed
February 2011HailMound City-no account filed
April 2008HailMound City-no account filed
June 2008HailMound City-no account filed
June 2008HailMound City-no account filed
June 2008HailMound City-no account filed
June 2008HailMound City-no account filed
June 2008HailMound City-no account filed
April 2007HailMound City-no account filed
March 2006HailMound City-no account filed
April 2003HailMound City-no account filed
July 2003HailMound City-no account filed
April 2001HailMound City-no account filed
May 1996HailMound City-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMound City-no account filed
June 1996HailMound City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Critzer5.3 miles14
Pleasanton5.9 miles15
Mantey6.3 miles15
Farlinville6.6 miles15
Prescott8.3 miles15
Boicourt10.1 miles16
Trading Post10.1 miles15
Blue Mound10.8 miles16

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232819The 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.