Mound, Minnesota
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mound City. It lies in ZIP code area 55364. It lies near Phelps Island. The Survey maps it on the Mound quadrangle. 9,398 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
3 figuresMound grew from 393 to 9,398 between 1920 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 393 | |
| 2010 | 9,052 | |
| 2020 | 9,398 | +346 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1905 USGS Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lake Minnetonka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Mound quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mound between 2000 and 2012, burning about 84 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 November 2012 | Debris and open burning | 77 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 October 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mound in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound | $5,000 | An 18-inch diameter tree was blown down on a home southwest of Mound. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Mound | - | A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.83 inches was reported. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound | - | A large tree was blown down on Highway 7, east of County Road 44. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound | - | Tree down across road at Bartlett blvd. and West Edge. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound | - | A tree was downed onto a power line on Noble Boulevard. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound | - | Large trees down, including some with a 20 inch diameter. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Mound | - | Homes and vehicles damaged. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound | - | Trees and power lines blown down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound | - | Numerous trees blown down, damaging 50 homes. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mound | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Mound | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Mound | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Mound | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Mound | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Mound | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Island Park | 1.7 miles | 18 | |
| Spring Park | 1.8 miles | 18 | |
| Saga Hill | 1.9 miles | 18 | |
| Minnetrista | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Stubbs Bay | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| Crescent Beach | 3.9 miles | 20 | |
| Orono | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| Eureka | 4.1 miles | 20 |
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 | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2025450 | 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 648143. 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.








