THE MOUND CITY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Wooded Osage Plains setting.
Mound City township has 49.2 square miles of land in Linn County. Its Census reference point is in Wooded Osage Plains, within Central Irregular Plains.
Irregular plains form a transition between northern agricultural country and more wooded uplands to the south and east. Grassland and forest historically mixed, with wider woodland belts beside streams.
Regional context: Central Irregular Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Mound City and Linn County
Mound City is associated with Linn County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Mound City by land and water
The Census records 0.59 square miles of water within Mound City, or 1.2% of its total area. It is 0.9 percentage points lower than the 2% recorded for Linn County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mound City township has 42.6 times the land area of nearby Mound City city (1.16 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.