Arlington Nebraska Map

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.

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).

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.