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:
“Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)