The Mound City post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Jackson Point (1850) and North Point (1855), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
First census: 678 in 18802020 census: 1,004155 years
Founding year: the first Mound City post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Mound City’s past
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Mound City was originally called North Point, and under the latter name was platted on October 31, 1856. The present name is after mounds near the original town site. A post office called North Point was established in 1855, and the name was changed to Mound City in 1871. Mound City was incorporated in 1873. Jackson's Point, which was founded in 1840 at the confluence of the north and south forks of Davis Creek, was absorbed into Mound City in the 19th Century. The railroad finally reached Mound City in 1880.
Passages that mention Mound City, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Holt County, Missouri1917 · page 169Read the page →
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iously passed into the hands of William A. Jones, a merchant of Oregon, a town which was laid out on the north side of Davis Creek, embracing a portion of the present town of Mound City, was incorporated by the General Assembly under the name of Mound City. The company included William Jones, Galen Crow, Ira Peter, George E. Glass, John Burnett, B. F. Ruffner, C. J.
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History of Holt County, Missouri1917 · page 167Read the page →
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that the first school in. the township was not taught until 1844, and that the original teacher was Professor John Collins, a noted instructor of youth in that early day. His school house was one and a half miles northwest of Mound City, at the foot of the bluff, on a farm first settled by the pioneer, Edward Dodge, the father of Levi Dodge, the proprietor of the once famous Pool of Siloam in Mound City.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Mound City, 1850 to 1975
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mound City. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1926Maitland sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Mound City.
Every building
Mound City, building by building, 1900–1928
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
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 Wikimedia Commons (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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