Mounds (Illinois)
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Location in Illinois
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Illinois | ||
| County : | Pulaski County | ||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 7 ′ N , 89 ° 12 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 810 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 270 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 3 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 99 m | ||
| Postal code : | 62964 | ||
| Area code : | +1 618 | ||
| FIPS : | 17-50777 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 425215 | ||
Mounds is a small town (with the status " City ") in Pulaski County in the south of the US -amerikanischen state of Illinois . In 2010 , Mounds had 810 residents.
geography
Mounds is located between the border with Kentucky forming Ohio River (5 km east) and the Mississippi , Illinois from Missouri separates. The Indiana border runs 172 km east.
Immediately on the northern city limits of Mounds are North Mounds and Spencer Heights . Other neighboring towns are Villa Ridge (5.5 km north), America (9.1 km east-northeast), Mound City (5.5 km south-east), Golden Lily (5.3 km south), Klondike (11.5 km south-west) and Cache (8.9 km west).
The closest major cities are St. Louis , Missouri (227 km northwest), Louisville , Kentucky (402 km east-northeast), Tennessee's capital Nashville (287 km southeast), and Tennessee's largest city, Memphis (276 km southwest).
traffic
Interstate 57 is on the eastern edge of Mounds and connects Chicago and Memphis. In the center of Mounds, a number of sub-streets meet.
A railway line of the Canadian National Railway runs through Mounds in a north-south direction , via which Amtrak express passenger trains also operate.
With the Cairo Regional Airport there is a small airfield 12.8 km southwest of Mounds. The nearest major airports are Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport (251 km northwest), Nashville International Airport (296 km southeast), and Memphis International Airport (290 km southwest).
Demographic data
According to the 2010 census , Mounds had 810 people in 337 households. The population density was 270 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.4 people lived in each of the 337 households.
The racial the population was composed of 22.7 percent white, 73.7 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and 0.9 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 3.2 percent of the population.
29 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14 percent were 65 years or older. 53.5 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 16,780 USD . The per capita income was $ 12,083. 44.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Fact Finder. Retrieved August 1, 2012
- ↑ Distance information according to Google Maps. Accessed August 1, 2012