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.
Population over time
2 figuresMounds 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,168 | |
| 2020 | 932 | -236 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 20 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.
- 1901 USGS Nuyaka quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1914 USGS Kiefer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1916 USGS Kiefer quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sapulpa South quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1963 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1990 USGS Bristow quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 March 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 19 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | TOO MANY |
| 18 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | FUCO |
| 29 December 2016 | Debris and open burning | 42 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | HICKORY |
| 18 November 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.8 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | BROWN'S CREEK 2 |
| 10 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.7 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | WARM-UP |
| 8 January 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Okmulgee Field Office | DUCK CREEK |
| 14 January 2012 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | $500,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew the roof off a building. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | $50,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew part of a roof off a building and also blew down numerous large tree limbs. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew roofs off a pair of carports. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour snapped power poles. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree and snapped numerous large tree limbs. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | - | Thunderstorm wind gusted to an estimated 65 mph. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated by amateur radio operators. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | - | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Mounds | - | Heavy rain caused significant street flooding. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| October 2014 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Mounds | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Mounds | - | 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 Mounds | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3287550 | 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 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.







