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 higher ...

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

Places

* Mound, Louisiana, United States *

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 is ...

, United States * Mound, Texas, United States * Mound, West Virginia * Mound Creek, a stream in Minnesota * Mounds, Illinois, United States *

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 t ...

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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 was ...

, a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, linking the Old Town and the New Town * The Mound railway station, a former station in northern Scotland

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Mound, a fictional entity in the work of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock * ''The Mound'' (novella), a 1940 work by H. P. Lovecraft

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* 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 W ...

, a nuclear laboratory in Miamisburg, Ohio that was a part of the Manhattan Project *

Mounds (candy) Mounds is a candy bar made by The Hershey Company, consisting of shredded, sweetened coconut coated in dark chocolate. The company also produces the Almond Joy, a similar bar topped by whole almonds and covered in milk chocolate. The two produ ...

, 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

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