mound A mound is a wikt:heaped, heaped pile of soil, earth, gravel, sand, rock (geology), 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 ...

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 2020 census, it is Louisiana's smallest village by population. Its ZIP Code is 71282. It is part of the Tallulah Micropolitan Statistical Area. H ...

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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 United States Census, 2010 census. Mound was the birthplace of the Tonka truck that is named after Lake Minnetonka, which the eastern part ...

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Mound, Texas Mound is an unincorporated community and census designated place (CDP) in Coryell County, Texas, United States. Its elevation is . Although Mound is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 76558. Mound was settled early i ...

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Mound, West Virginia Mound was an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The ...

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 661 in the 2020 census. Geography Mounds is located at (37.114838, -89.199030). According to the 2010 census, Mounds has a total area of , of which (or 99.26%) ...

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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 932 at the 2020 census. History The post office for this community was established in 1895 and originally named "Posey", fo ...

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The Mound The Mound is an artificial slope and road 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 Loc ...

, 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

* The Mound or

Marble Arch Mound The Marble Arch Mound or Marble Arch Hill was a temporary, Mound, artificial hill located next to Marble Arch in London, England. It had a viewing platform on the summit and an events space inside. The hill opened to the public on 26 July 2021, ...

, former artificial hill in London *

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) 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 product ...

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Pitcher's 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 refer ...

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