Arlington Nebraska Map
Explore Arlington, Nebraska, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
Interactive Map of Arlington, Nebraska
How to Use This Arlington, Nebraska Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Arlington, Nebraska. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Nebraska or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Arlington.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Arlington |
| State | Nebraska (NE) |
| County | Washington County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.452497 |
| Longitude | -96.351133 |
| Population | 1,300 |
| Density | 839.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 68002 |
| Area Code | 402, 531 |
| County Seat | Blair |
| School District | Arlington Public Schools |
About Arlington, Nebraska
Arlington is a locality in Washington County, Nebraska, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,300. The population density is 839.4 people per km². Arlington is located at 41.4525°N, 96.3511°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Arlington is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68002.Arlington occupies a wide, level expanse of the Nebraska plains where the horizon acts as the primary fact of daily life. It lies 7.7 miles east of Fremont, NE (from Fremont, NE: bearing 80°T), and is situated 9.7 miles north of Valley. Bell Creek cuts a quiet, persistent path through the surrounding fields, its banks lined with the tangled, pale limbs of cottonwood trees that sway against a sky of immense, unyielding blue. Only two miles distant, the still surface of Lang Reservoir reflects the shifting light of the afternoon, holding the stillness of the prairie in its shallow basin. The air here carries the dry, honest scent of disturbed earth and cured grasses, a clarity that sharpens the edges of every fence post and distant silo until they stand out in stark, high relief against the gold and green of the crops.
Arlington traces its foundations to the steady migration of settlers who recognized the agricultural promise of this fertile, wind-swept corridor. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, dominated by the labor of grain production and the maintenance of machinery that churns through the soil every spring. Local life moves with the deliberate pace of those who measure time in harvests rather than hours, occasionally punctuated by visits to Clemons Park, a tranquil preserve six miles away that offers a brief respite from the open fields. While Skunk Hill sits twenty miles off, a faint and distant shadow against the western sky, the true character of Arlington is found in the resilience of its people and the quiet endurance of its landscape, where the sun sets in a long, bruised glow that illuminates the depth of the plains.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Memorial Park (Local Recreation) — 6.4 mi, 261° W
- Main Street 7 Theatre (Cinema) — 7.0 mi, 270° W
- Eppley Auditorium (Theatre) — 7.2 mi, 261° W
- Welcome to Fremont Historic Downtown (Monument) — 7.5 mi, 261° W
- All Gave Some | Some Gave All (Monument) — 7.7 mi, 260° W
- Louis E May Museum (Museum) — 7.9 mi, 266° W
- Nebraska Railroad Museum (Museum) — 8.1 mi, 267° W
- Pine Ridge Estates (Monument) — 9.1 mi, 243° SW
- Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 9.3 mi, 264° W
- Valley Historical Museum (Museum) — 9.8 mi, 180° S
- Flanagan Lake & Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 10.5 mi, 135° SE
- Tower of the Four Winds (Attraction) — 11.9 mi, 055° NE
- Two Rivers State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 15.1 mi, 180° S
- Desoto National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.9 mi, 076° E · 16k acres
- Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 18.1 mi, 090° E · 7,936 acres
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About This Arlington Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Arlington, Nebraska. Coordinates: 41.452497, -96.351133. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Arlington includes the ZIP code (68002), telephone area code (402, 531), county seat of Washington County (Blair), and school district assignment (Arlington Public Schools).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
