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Mound City is the largest city in Holt County, Missouri, located near the interchange of Interstate 29 and Missouri Route 118 at the southern end of the Loess Hills, from whose mounds the city takes its name.

Mound City was originally called North Point and was platted on October 31, 1856; its post office opened as North Point in 1855 and the name was changed to Mound City in 1871.

According to the city's own history, Mound City was first incorporated by the General Assembly in 1857 and, after nearly being wiped out during the Civil War, was reincorporated in 1873.

Mound City's land was part of the Platte Purchase, the 1836 treaty by which the Iowa, Sac and Fox peoples ceded the northwestern corner of Missouri.

Mound City had a population of 1,004 at the 2020 census, down from 1,159 in 2010.

The 2010 census counted 514 households in Mound City.

The railroad finally reached Mound City in 1880, and 1881 was a boom year in which the town's opera house opened to a crowd of 700.

Mound City is a gateway to the nearby Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge (formerly Squaw Creek), established in 1935, which draws birdwatchers during the migrations when thousands of waterfowl gather there.

Mound City's students attend schools in the Mound City R-II School District, whose high school, middle school, and elementary school are all located in town.