Mound Texas Map

About Mound, Texas

Mound is a locality in Coryell County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 174. The population density is 93.8 people per km². Mound is located at 31.3518°N, 97.6375°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 76528, 76558.

Mound occupies a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of limestone outcroppings and the deep, sun-bleached grasses that define the prairie. It lies 8.5 miles southeast of Gatesville, TX (from Gatesville, TX: bearing 133°T), and is situated 17.1 miles north-northeast of Killeen. The air here holds a particular, dry clarity, especially as the light leans long and amber against the rise of King Mountain to the west, casting shadows that stretch across the open plains like cooling fingers. Only a mile away, the Leon River carves a deliberate, muddy path through the earth, its presence marked by the thick, knotted roots of oaks and the sudden, lush density of riparian brush that contrasts with the surrounding scrub. Eleven miles distant, the waters of Belton Lake catch the pale sky, offering a wider horizon that anchors the local atmosphere in a stillness only broken by the occasional, distant hum of wind moving through the dry stalks of late summer.

Mound grew from the necessity of the land, its rhythm dictated by the cycles of agriculture and the slow, steady persistence of those who worked the soil in the shadow of Egypt Hollow. The economy remains tethered to this agrarian legacy, a place where the passage of time is measured not by sudden shifts, but by the maintenance of fences and the seasonal turn of the fields. While modern life moves with a different velocity elsewhere, the residents here maintain a connection to the quietude of their surroundings, occasionally venturing seven miles out to Lions Club Park to find a respite in the managed shade. Mound persists as a testament to a specific, inland endurance, where the history of the region survives in the weathered siding of older structures and the unspoken knowledge of the terrain that every inhabitant carries as a matter of course.

About This Mound Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mound, Texas. Coordinates: 31.351835, -97.637518. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Mound includes the ZIP code (76528, 76558), telephone area code (254), county seat of Coryell County (Gatesville), and school district assignment (Gatesville Independent School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.