Thebes, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
500 ft 150 m450 ft 135 m430 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m330 ft 100 m310 ft 95 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Thebes sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 340–470 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the south side
Highest
500 ft 150 m
on the southeast side
Average
400 ft 125 m
all land inside village limits
Thebes spans about 190 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the southeast side | 500 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Thebes | 350 ft105 m |
| Airport (CGI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi west of the village limits | 342 ft104 m |
| Average of all land | 400 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Alexander County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 182 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 104 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.2209° N, 89.4609° 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 1
- 62990
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Benton, MO440 ft
- Thebes430 ft
- Cape Girardeau, MO420 ft
- Kelso, MO410 ft
- New Hamburg, MO410 ft
- Scott City, MO390 ft
- Olive Branch370 ft
- Commerce, MO340 ft
- East Cape Girardeau340 ft
- McClure340 ft
- Tamms330 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,716th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Alexander Countyhighest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Italian Hill840 ft
- Vick Hill820 ft
- Pine Knob820 ft
- Burner Hill630 ft
- Dogtooth Bend Mounds330 ft
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.