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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.

Mound within Hennepin County

Population over time

3 figures

Mound 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.

YearPeople Change
1920393
20109,052
20209,398+346 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

2 since 2000

Regional 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 burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 November 2012Debris and open burning77 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 October 2000Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMound$5,000An 18-inch diameter tree was blown down on a home southwest of Mound.
June 2014Heavy RainMound-A 24 hour rainfall total of 4.83 inches was reported.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMound-A large tree was blown down on Highway 7, east of County Road 44.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMound-Tree down across road at Bartlett blvd. and West Edge.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMound-A tree was downed onto a power line on Noble Boulevard.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMound-Large trees down, including some with a 20 inch diameter.
June 2001HailMound-Homes and vehicles damaged.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMound-Trees and power lines blown down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMound-Numerous trees blown down, damaging 50 homes.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindMound-Trees and power lines down.
June 2025HailMound-no account filed
August 2018HailMound-no account filed
May 2011HailMound-no account filed
June 2002HailMound-no account filed
July 2000Funnel CloudMound-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMound-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hennepin 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
Island Park1.7 miles18
Spring Park1.8 miles18
Saga Hill1.9 miles18
Minnetrista2.7 miles18
Stubbs Bay3.8 miles20
Crescent Beach3.9 miles20
Orono4.1 miles20
Eureka4.1 miles20

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 MoundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2025450The 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.