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Mounds, Oklahoma

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sapulpa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74047. The Survey maps it on the Sapulpa South quadrangle. 932 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Mounds within Creek County

Population over time

2 figures

Mounds fell from 1,168 to 932 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
20101,168
2020932-236 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mounds between 2008 and 2016, burning about 87 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 March 2008Arson/incendiarism19 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeTOO MANY
18 February 2011Debris and open burning10 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeFUCO
29 December 2016Debris and open burning42 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeHICKORY
18 November 2008Arson/incendiarism7.8 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBROWN'S CREEK 2
10 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.7 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeWARM-UP
8 January 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeDUCK CREEK
14 January 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Creek County

Storms near this place

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mounds in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993Thunderstorm WindMounds$500,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMounds$50,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew the roof off a building.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMounds$50,000Thunderstorm winds estimated near 80 miles an hour tore the roof off a mobile home and destroyed a garage. Other homes in the area also suffered roof damage. In addition, there was tree damage. One tree fell on a car and broke out its back window.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMounds$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew part of a roof off a building and also blew down numerous large tree limbs.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindMounds$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew roofs off a pair of carports.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMounds$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour snapped power poles.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMounds-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree and snapped numerous large tree limbs.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindMounds-Thunderstorm wind gusted to an estimated 65 mph.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindMounds-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMounds-Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated by amateur radio operators.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindMounds-Strong thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMounds-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMounds-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
August 2007Flash FloodMounds-Heavy rain caused significant street flooding.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMounds-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMounds-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
May 2025HailMounds-no account filed
May 2021HailMounds-no account filed
March 2019HailMounds-no account filed
May 2019HailMounds-no account filed
May 2016HailMounds-no account filed
October 2014HailMounds-no account filed
April 2009HailMounds-no account filed
April 2009HailMounds-no account filed
April 2008HailMounds-no account filed
April 2005HailMounds-no account filed
August 2001HailMounds-no account filed
April 1998HailMounds-no account filed
May 1998HailMounds-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMounds-no account filed
May 1997HailMounds-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindMounds-no account filed
October 1993HailMounds-no account filed
October 1993HailMounds-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Creek 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
Kiefer4.7 miles20
Sapulpa8.9 miles20
Hilton9.2 miles14
Kellyville9.3 miles17
Tabor11.9 miles17
Heyburn12.1 miles16
Slick12.9 miles17
Bowden12.9 miles14

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 MoundsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287550The 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 1095557. 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.