South Mound, Kansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67357. The Survey maps it on the South Mound quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 988 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 18 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.
- 1886 USGS Parsons quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Parsons quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS McCune quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Mc Cune quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS McCune quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS South Mound quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of South Mound between 2015 and 2018, burning about 145 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 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1180405 |
| 19 April 2018 | Other causes | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018029 |
| 9 March 2018 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 180309 |
| 3 March 2018 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 180303 |
| 20 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Labette County | 22 |
| 2 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Labette County | 17 |
| 28 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 16015 |
| 27 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 16013 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Mound in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 7 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2000 | Tornado (F0) | South Mound | $25,000 | The same tornado that caused major damage in Parsons, the twister clipped southeast Neosho County where it destroyed a hay barn and blew out the windows of a house. |
| April 2005 | Tornado (F1) | South Mound | $15,000 | One frame house was partially unroofed and one barn destroyed. Tornado crossed the Neosho/Crawford county line, 5 miles southeast of St. Paul. The tornado lifted one mile east of the Neosho/Crawford county line. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Mound | $1,000 | Shingles were blown off a few homes. |
| August 2016 | Flood | South Mound | - | Major flooding was reported near Parsons Lake, where barricades were placed at 30th and Lyon Roads as well as 40th and Kiowa. |
| May 2013 | Flash Flood | South Mound | - | Several county roads were reported as under water and impassable. |
| June 2000 | Tornado (F0) | South Mound | - | A brief touchdown in an open field. |
| April 2026 | Hail | South Mound | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | South Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | South Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | South Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | South Mound | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | South Mound | - | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Hail | South Mound | - | 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.
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 South Mound | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17299914 | 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 469698. 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.












