Burial Mound
Burial Mound is an archaeological site in Ballard, Kentucky. Burial Mound is situated nearby to the archaeological site Chief’s Mound, as well as near the tourism office Welcome Center.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wickliffe Mounds.
Wickliffe Mounds
Park
Photo: Bpluke01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wickliffe Mounds is a prehistoric, Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Ballard County, Kentucky, just outside the town of Wickliffe, about 3 miles from the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wickliffe and Cairo.
Wickliffe
Village
Photo: Ichabod, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wickliffe is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Ballard County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 670 at the 2020 census. Wickliffe is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Cairo
Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cairo is in Illinois on a small strip of land in between Missouri and Kentucky as well as the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, made famous in Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn".
Burial Mound
- Type: Archaeological site
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Ballard, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.97142° or 36° 58′ 17″ northLongitude
-89.09201° or 89° 5′ 31″ westOpen location code
868GXWC5+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 8322897714OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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