Mounds, Illinois
| Mounds | |
| City | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Illinois |
| County | Pulaski |
| Coordinates | 37°6′53″N 89°11′57″W / 37.11472°N 89.19917°WCoordinates: 37°6′53″N 89°11′57″W / 37.11472°N 89.19917°W |
| Area | 1.22 sq mi (3 km2) |
| - land | 1.21 sq mi (3 km2) |
| - water | 0.01 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Population | 1,117 (2000) |
| Density | 918.9/sq mi (355/km2) |
| Timezone | CST (UTC-6) |
| - summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Postal code | 62964 |
| Area code | 618 |
   Location of Mounds within Illinois
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Mounds is a city in Pulaski County, Illinois, United States. The population was 810 in the 2010 census, a decline from 1,117 in 2000.
Mounds is located at 37°6′53″N 89°11′57″W / 37.11472°N 89.19917°W (37.114838, -89.199030).
According to the 2010 census, Mounds has a total area of 1.219 square miles (3.16 km2), of which 1.21 square miles (3.13 km2) (or 99.26%) is land and 0.009 square miles (0.02 km2) (or 0.74%) is water.
The town was named for the prehistoric monumental earthwork mounds in the area, likely built by the Mississippian culture circa 1000 CE. Mound building had started earlier, before the Common Era, but Mississippian sites were located throughout the Lower Mississippian Valley and the tributaries of the river, as along the Ohio River.
European-Americans settled southern Illinois by traveling along the Ohio River, mostly from the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, and others of the Upper South. At one time this area of the state was called "Little Dixie" because of the preponderance of southerners. Because Illinois entered the union as a free state, African-American slaves sometimes escaped to it across the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to freedom, sometimes traveling as far as Canada to ensure they evaded slave catchers. Other blacks settled in the area in the late nineteenth century because of jobs available with the railroad in Pulaski and Cairo, Illinois. Mounds had a roundhouse and maintenance jobs associated with the railroad.
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