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Mound is a city in western Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 9,052 at the 2010 census . [ 3 ] Mound was the birthplace of the Tonka truck that is named after Lake Minnetonka , which the eastern part of town sits on.
Lost Lake is located entirely within the city limits of Mound, Minnesota. It is part of Lake Minnetonka and considered by the city of Mound to be important to its re-development plans with the hope being that boat users will increase its downtown business traffic. [ 1 ]
Map of the United States with Minnesota highlighted. Minnesota is a state situated in the Midwestern United States.According to the 2020 United States census, Minnesota is the 22nd most populous state with 5,706,494 inhabitants but the 14th largest by land area, spanning 79,626.74 square miles (206,232.3 km 2) of land. [1]
The mound group is located east of Wapello, Iowa, near the unincorporated community of Toolesboro. Tremper Mound and Works: The Tremper Mound and Works are an Ohio Hopewell (100 BCE to 500 CE) earthen enclosure and large, irregularly shaped mound. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Mound Prairie Township, Minnesota (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 43°46′33″N 91°25′50″W / 43.77583°N 91.43056°W / 43.77583; -91
The first people who inhabited the Lake Minnetonka area were Indigenous peoples who migrated to the region at the end of the last ice age circa 8000 BCE.Later peoples who inhabited the area between 3500 BCE and 1500 CE are commonly referred to collectively as the "Mound Builders" because they constructed large land features serving spiritual, ceremonial, burial, and elite residential functions.
Westonka is a portmanteau of "west" and "Minnetonka", referring to the towns around the west third of Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota, roughly 25 miles west of Minneapolis. Several small suburbs comprise the Westonka School District and Westonka is also used in the name of the local (Mound) library and other regional organizations, institutions ...
Modern bridge over Minnesota State Highway 7 in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota. Two major railroad bridges in Lake Minnetonka were preserved for the trail. The largest one is the Arcola Trestle, built in 1881. It is 550 feet (170 m) long. [6] It consists of several spans of trestles with two through plate girder sections.