Gays, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
770 ft 235 m760 ft 230 m760 ft 230 m750 ft 230 m740 ft 225 m740 ft 225 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Gays sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 750–760 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the northwest side
Highest
760 ft 235 m
on the south side
Average
750 ft 230 m
all land inside village limits
Gays is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 760 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gays | 750 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 750 ft230 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Moultrie County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 211 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 547 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4581° N, 88.4939° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kaskaskia River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 61928
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gays750 ft
- Mattoon Township720 ft
- Mattoon720 ft
- Lafayette Township710 ft
- Windsor700 ft
- Windsor Township700 ft
- Paradise Township690 ft
- Whitley Township680 ft
- Ash Grove Township, Shelby County650 ft
- East Nelson Township650 ft
- Allenville650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois504th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Moultrie Countyhighest of 15
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.