Olive Branch, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 170 m500 ft 150 m470 ft 140 m410 ft 125 m350 ft 105 m320 ft 100 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Olive Branch sits at about 370 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 110 m
most residents: 330–410 ft
Lowest
320 ft 100 m
on the east side
Highest
550 ft 170 m
on the north side
Average
370 ft 110 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Olive Branch spans about 230 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 370 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 550 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 320 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Olive Branch | 340 ft105 m |
| Airport (CGI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi west of the CDP boundary | 342 ft104 m |
| Average of all land | 370 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Alexander County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 650 2020 Census
- Land area
- 9.4 sq mi
- Density
- 69 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.1687° N, 89.3517° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cape Girardeau Regional (CGI) 342 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 62969 62988 62990
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Thebes430 ft
- Kelso, MO410 ft
- Scott City, MO390 ft
- Olive Branch370 ft
- Commerce, MO340 ft
- East Cape Girardeau340 ft
- Pulaski340 ft
- McClure340 ft
- Tamms330 ft
- Unity330 ft
- Mounds320 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,851st highest of 2,872
- Towns in Alexander County2nd highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Italian Hill840 ft
- Vick Hill820 ft
- Burner Hill630 ft
- Rattlesnake Hill470 ft
- Dogtooth Bend Mounds330 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Olive Branch is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.