Mounds is a town in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States. It is located just south of Tulsa; the town’s population was 1,168 at the 2010 census, an increase of 1.3 percent from the figure of 1,153 recorded in 2000.

The publicize office for this community was expected in 1895 and originally named “Posey”, for the Creek poet Alexander Posey, who lived in Eufaula, Oklahoma. In 1898, the town was moved 5 miles (8 km) southwest and renamed “Mounds” for twin hills that were nearby. By 1901, the St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway (later the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway) built a track through Mounds, and the town became an important cattle shipping point. Mounds incorporated as a city in the same year. The discovery of oil in the Glenn Pool sports ground in 1905 turned Mounds into a shipping narrowing for incompetent oil instead of cattle.

In the to the lead days, Mounds was on the route of the Sapulpa & Interurban Railway (“S&I”) streetcar/interurban descent connecting to Tulsa through Sapulpa, Kiefer and Glenpool; S&I in imitation of went through a series of mergers and state changes, with without help the Tulsa-to-Sapulpa portion continuing as the Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway.

Mounds had a population of 675 at statehood in 1907, rising to 701 in 1910. The oil boom played out in the 1920s, and the population declined from 1,078 in 1920 to 701 in 1930. Railroad activity became primarily shipping grain and cattle. As mature went by, the population reached a low of 560 in 1950, since which it has increased. In the 21st century, Mounds is mostly a commuter town, with 92 percent of employed residents commuting to put-on primarily in Sapulpa and Tulsa.