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About Mounds, IL

Mounds is a small southern Illinois city in Pulaski County, accessible via Interstate 57 and US Route 51. Most visitors arrive from St. Louis (150 miles northwest) or Memphis (180 miles south), while locals make short trips to Cairo or Carbondale. The town sits in the Mississippi River floodplain with hot summers and mild winters. Mounds is named for the prehistoric Native American burial mounds scattered throughout the area.

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Mounds, IL is in United States, at 37.114, -89.202 - about 28 km south-east of Thebes, IL.

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The closest airport to Mounds, IL is Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, 53 km (about 57 min by car). Other airports nearby: Barkley Regional Airport.

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