Editing Mound City, Missouri (section)

==Geography==
Mound City is located in the [[List of Missouri conservation areas – Northwest region|northwest]] corner of Missouri at the southern end of the [[Loess Hills]]. It is named for the hills in the area.  According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|1.29|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, all land.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2012-07-08|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702145235/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|archivedate=2012-07-02}}</ref>

Mound City is located in what was, in the early 19th century, considered to be [[Territories of the United States#Formerly unorganized territories|unorganized]] [[Missouri Territory]]. In 1836, leaders of the [[Iowa people|Iowa]], [[Sauk people|Sauk]] and [[Meskwaki]] peoples sold land that included what would become Mound City, as part of the {{convert|3149|sqmi|acre km2}} of the [[Platte Purchase]].

===Protected areas===
[[File:State Theater Mound City Missouri.jpg|thumb|left|The State Theater, downtown|225px]]
Mound City benefits economically from the [[Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge]], which is about {{convert|5|mi}} from the city. Since spring [[snow geese]] migration numbers first topped one million in March 2008, Mound City and the surrounding area have benefited from the nearly 300,000 visitors they have attracted, including thousands of hunters who hunt in the stubble of corn fields that surround the refuge.<ref name="geese">{{cite web| title= A million snow geese take refuge 90 miles from Kansas City| date= March 14, 2014| first= Eric| last= Adler | url= http://www.kansascity.com/2014/03/14/4890857/a-million-snow-geese-take-refuge.html| work= [[The Kansas City Star]]| accessdate=2014-03-15}}</ref>

The refuge is estimated to add about $2.6 million to the economies of [[Holt County, Missouri|Holt]] and [[Buchanan County, Missouri|Buchanan]] counties. Hunting is prohibited on the 7,500-acre refuge, but not in the corn fields where the geese feed, which surround the refuge.<ref name="geese"/>