Place:Thebes, Alexander, Illinois, United States

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NameThebes
TypeVillage
Coordinates37.219°N 89.457°W
Located inAlexander, Illinois, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
Thebes Cemetery
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Thebes is a village in and the former county seat of Alexander County, Illinois, United States. The population was 208 at the 2020 census, down from 436 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1860 the county seat was moved to Cairo, Illinois, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

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