The story
Read it all →How Mound Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Mound Township.
Mound Township was one of the original four created when the county was organized in 1827.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Mound Township
28% of Mound Township’s homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1958 on and the census since 1890.
0on the National Register
28%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Mound Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
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Hamlets and corners on the map
FosterOlinRomine Corner
Gone or out of use
Meade Airportairport
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Mound Township
BaltimoreRogerUpper Mound
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Mound Township, 1833 to 1958
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
By decade
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Mound Township on the map, 1958 to 1991
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mound Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1958Covington sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Mound Township.
People over time
Mound Township, census by census
Between 317 and 515 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mound Township’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Mound Township
Nobody well known was born in Mound Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Mound Township’s history
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.