Soldiers’ lot · VA-listed site
Mound City Cemetery Soldiers' Lot
Mound City, Kansas
Location
414 Elm Street
Mound City, KS 66506
Visiting
- Address
- 414 Elm Street, Mound City, KS 66506
- Phone
- 913-727-1376
- Visiting hours
- Open daily from sunrise to sunset.
- Office hours
- Monday thru Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Closed federal holidays except Memorial Day.
- Time zone
- Central Time
- Burial space
- Closed
- Accessibility
- Not yet verified
- Official page
- cem.va.gov
Flowers and grounds policy, from the VA
Cemetery policies are conspicuously posted and readily visible to the public.
Floral arrangements accompanying the casket or urn at the time of burial will be placed on the completed grave.
We welcome and encourage fresh-cut flowers throughout the year and provide flower containers for gravesite display. Cemetery visitors may use receptacles placed throughout the grounds. Flowers are picked up on the 1st and 3rd Mondays from April 1 to October 1 and one week after Easter, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day. Spent or damaged flowers will be removed. They may also be removed for routine mowing or other maintenance.
Artificial flowers are only permitted from October 1 to April 1 due to the mowing season. All artificial flowers must be placed in plastic vases that are located in receptacles throughout the cemetery. Please do not place artificial flower stems directly into the ground.
On Easter, Memorial Day and Veterans Day, fresh cut and artificial flowers may be placed on gravesites seven days before through seven days after the holiday. During the holiday season, from December 1 through January 20, wreaths, gravesite blankets, and other seasonal decorations may be placed on gravesites.
To maintain the dignity of the cemetery, commemorative items, balloons, pinwheels, glass items, votive lights, stuffed animals, statues, shepherd's hooks and permanent plantings, among other items, are not allowed.
No floral item or decoration may be attached to a headstone or marker in a national cemetery. Animals may eat fresh flowers and arrangements.
Weapons Policy
VA regulations 38 CFR 1.218 prohibit the carrying of firearms (either openly or concealed), explosives or other dangerous or deadly weapons while on VA property, except for official purposes, such as military funeral honors.
Possession of firearms on any property under the charge and control of VA is prohibited. Offenders may be subject to a fine, removal from the premises, or arrest.
General information, from the VA
The private and community cemeteries that contain NCA soldiers' and government lots, and Confederate cemeteries, do not always have staffed offices on site. When administrative information for the larger cemetery is available, it is provided below.
This soldiers' lot is overseen by the Leavenworth National Cemetery.
Please contact the national cemetery for more information.
Directions from Nearest Airport
From Kansas City take Interstate 29 South for 9.5 miles to Interstate 635 South. Travel Interstate 635 South 12.2 miles. Bear right onto Interstate 35 South. Travel Interstate 35 South 4.7 miles and bear right onto US 69 South. Travel US 69 South for 60 miles. Take Highway 52 West. Travel on Highway 52 West for approximately five miles to Mound City. Turn right on to North Fifth Street, which ends at the cemetery.
Pay your respects
Visitors to veterans’ graves sometimes leave a coin on the headstone to show that someone came. You can leave a symbolic coin here. No money is involved, and nothing about you is published. About the custom, and what each coin is said to mean.
History
Reproduced from the VA National Cemetery Administration’s page for this cemetery, retrieved November 11, 2026. This is the VA’s text, unedited; it is not independent research by this site.
The Mound City Soldiers' Lot is located in Lots 262 and 263 of Woodland Cemetery at Mound City, KS, which set aside the area for the burial of soldiers. The first interments consisted of 30 Union soldiers killed in the Battles of Mine Creek and Marais des Cygnes in 1864. The deed for the soldiers' lot, measuring 48 by 158 feet, was not officially transferred until 1874. In 1888, the remains of other Union and unknown soldiers buried elsewhere in Linn County were re-interred into the soldiers' lot. In 1940, laborers of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a depression-era work relief program, erected an enclosing stone wall and post-and-chain fence around the perimeter of the soldiers' lot.
Monuments and Memorials
In 1889, the United States erected the Union Soldiers monument to honor the 80 Civil War soldiers laid to rest at Mound City Soldiers' Lot. The granite monument, which cost approximately $2,500, depicts a Civil War infantryman holding his musket, looking to the east.
An artillery monument was placed in the soldiers' lot circa 1880.
The Linn County Historical Society erected a wooden memorial at the entrance of the soldiers' lot at some point during the 20th century. This memorial, which signified the soldiers' lot within the larger cemetery, was replaced with a limestone version in 2001.
Notable burials and memorials
Reproduced from the VA’s page for this cemetery, retrieved November 11, 2026, including Medal of Honor recipients where the VA lists them. Links lead to the VA’s own records. To correct an entry, contact the VA; to tell us our copy is out of date, report it.
Nearby veterans cemeteries
Sources
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration. Find a Cemetery: all national cemeteries, and each cemetery’s own page. U.S. government work (public domain). Retrieved November 11, 2026. Used for: name, address, phone and burial-space status, hours, policies, history and notable burials.
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration. Mound City Cemetery Soldiers' Lot (official cemetery page). Retrieved November 11, 2026.
- Map position: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration. VA National Cemetery Sites (dataset).