mound A mound is a heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris. Most commonly, mounds are earthen formations such as hills and mountains, particularly if they appear artificial. A mound may be any rounded area of topographically highe ...

is an artificial heap or pile, especially of earth, rocks, or sand. Mound and Mounds may also refer to:

Places

Mound, Louisiana Mound is a village in Madison Parish, Louisiana, United States. With a population of 12 at the 2000 census, it is Louisiana's smallest village by population. Its ZIP Code is 71282. It is part of the Tallulah Micropolitan Statistical Area. Hi ...

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Mound, Minnesota Mound is a city in western Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 9,052 at the 2010 census. Mound was the birthplace of the Tonka truck that is named after Lake Minnetonka, which the eastern part of town sits on. Mound i ...

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Mound, Texas Mound is an unincorporated community in Coryell County Coryell County ( ) is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 83,093. The county seat is Gatesville. The county i ...

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Mound, West Virginia Mound was an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers ...

Mound Creek Mound Creek is a stream in Brown and Cottonwood counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Mound Creek was named for nearby mounds of quartzite. See also *List of rivers of Minnesota Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulat ...

, a stream in Minnesota *

Mounds, Illinois Mounds is a city in Pulaski County, Illinois, United States. The population was 810 in the 2010 census, a decline from 1,117 in 2000. Geography Mounds is located at (37.114838, -89.199030). According to the 2010 census, Mounds has a total area ...

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Mounds, Oklahoma Mounds is a town in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located just south of Tulsa; the town's population was 1,168 at the 2010 census, an increase of 1.3 percent from the figure of 1,153 recorded in 2000. History The post office for thi ...

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The Mound The Mound is an artificial slope in central Edinburgh, Scotland, which connects Edinburgh's New and Old Towns. It was formed by dumping around 1,501,000 cartloads of earth excavated from the foundations of the New Town into Nor Loch which wa ...

, a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, linking the Old Town and the New Town *

The Mound railway station The Mound railway station was a former railway station on the Far North Line near the head of Loch Fleet in Scotland. For more than half of its life it was the junction for . History The Sutherland Railway opened between and on 13 April 18 ...

, a former station in northern Scotland

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Mound, a fictional entity in the work of artist

Trenton Doyle Hancock Trenton Doyle Hancock (born 1974) is an American artist working with Printmaking, prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings. Through his work, Hancock mainly aims to tell the story of the Mounds, mystical creatures that are part of the artist ...

* ''The Mound'' (novella), a 1940 work by H. P. Lovecraft

Other uses

* Mound, monumental earthwork mound built by prehistoric

Mound builder (people) A number of pre-Columbian cultures are collectively termed "Mound Builders". The term does not refer to a specific people or archaeological culture, but refers to the characteristic mound earthworks erected for an extended period of more than ...

Mound Laboratories Mound Laboratory in Miamisburg, Ohio was an Atomic Energy Commission (later Department of Energy) facility for nuclear weapon research during the Cold War, named after the nearby Miamisburg Indian Mound. The laboratory grew out of the World War ...

, a nuclear laboratory in Miamisburg, Ohio that was a part of the Manhattan Project * Mounds (candy), a candy bar *

Pitchers mound A baseball field, also called a ball field or baseball diamond, is the field upon which the game of baseball is played. The term can also be used as a metonym for a baseball park. The term sandlot is sometimes used, although this usually refers ...

, a raised surface on a baseball diamond from which pitches are thrown