Explore Belvidere, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Belvidere, 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 Belvidere.
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 | Belvidere |
| State | Nebraska (NE) |
| County | Thayer County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.251947 |
| Longitude | -97.55782 |
| Population | 51 |
| Density | 41.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 68315 |
| Area Code | 402 |
| County Seat | Hebron |
| School District | Thayer Central Community Schools |
Belvidere sits amidst the vast, unyielding reach of the plains where the Big Sandy Creek carves a shallow, rhythmic path through the silt and soil. It lies 42.8 miles west of Beatrice, NE (from Beatrice, NE: bearing 269°T), and is situated 19.1 miles south of Geneva. The horizon functions here as the primary fact of life, a clean line that separates the deep, bruised violet of the twilight sky from the muted, earthen tones of the prairie. A few miles to the north, the quiet surface of Elting Reservoir holds the reflection of the clouds, offering a stillness that contrasts with the persistent, low-frequency hum of the wind moving through the grasses. The land is defined by these long, unobstructed distances where the light seems to stretch and thin until it catches on the edge of a fence line or the rusted roof of an old grain elevator.
Belvidere retains the quiet composure of an agricultural settlement founded on the stubborn endurance of the homestead era. The economy remains anchored to the surrounding fields, where the cycle of planting and harvest dictates the tempo of the days as surely as the rotation of the earth. Beyond the immediate grid of the streets, the local landscape opens into the wilder, managed stretches of the Little Blue Wildlife Management Area, providing a corridor for the creatures that move through the tallgrass. History here is kept not in monuments, but in the maintenance of the homesteads and the persistent, pragmatic labor required to thrive in a climate that demands both resilience and patience.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Belvidere, Nebraska. Coordinates: 40.251947, -97.55782. 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 Belvidere includes the ZIP code (68315), telephone area code (402), county seat of Thayer County (Hebron), and school district assignment (Thayer Central Community 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. |