Mound City is the name of several places in the United States:
- Mound City, Arkansas
- Mound City, Illinois
- Mound City, Kansas
- Mound City Township, Kansas
- Mound City, Missouri
- Mound City, South Dakota
- Mound City National Cemetery
- Big Mound City
Other things known by the moniker Mound City:
- Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, formerly designated "Mound City Group National Monument"
- The Mound City (passenger train), operated by the Illinois Terminal Railroad between St. Louis, Missouri and Peoria, Illinois
- Mound City and Eastern Railway, in McPherson County, South Dakota
- St. Louis, Missouri, known at one time as Mound City due to the presence of several ceremonial mounds similar to the nearby Cahokia Mounds. (The St. Louis mounds have long since disappeared, having been used as construction fill in the 19th century.)
- The Mound City Blue Blowers, a kazoo and banjo music group with several recordings in the 1930s
- The USS Mound City, a gunboat used by the Union in the American Civil War
Famous quotes containing the words mound and/or city:
“Worn down by the hoofs of millions of half-wild Texas cattle driven along it to the railheads in Kansas, the trail was a bare, brown, dusty strip hundreds of miles long, lined with the bleaching bones of longhorns and cow ponies. Here and there a broken-down chuck wagon or a small mound marking the grave of some cowhand buried by his partners “on the lone prairie” gave evidence to the hardships of the journey.”
—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“He bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind. He represents continuous hard labor, year in, year out, and small gains. He is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to city watches. He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)