Mound City
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Mound City is the name of several places in the United States:
- 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
- Saint 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