Explore Berea, 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 Berea, 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 Berea.
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 | Berea |
| State | Nebraska (NE) |
| County | Box Butte County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 42.21413 |
| Longitude | -102.980199 |
| Population | 49 |
| Density | 15.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 69301 |
| Area Code | 308 |
| County Seat | Alliance |
| School District | Hemingford Public Schools |
Berea unfolds across a vast expanse of high plains where the horizon acts as the primary arbiter of the day’s mood. It lies 42.7 miles northeast of Scottsbluff, NE (from Scottsbluff, NE: bearing 56°T), and is situated 9.5 miles northwest of Alliance. Berea Creek traces a quiet, persistent line through the landscape just a mile away, its presence marked by the subtle shift in vegetation that clings to its banks. The terrain is defined by the open, austere character of the prairie, where the sky claims the greater portion of the view and the light at dusk bruises the clouds with shades of deep violet and copper. To the west, the distant profile of Wild Horse Butte rises as a solitary anchor against the immense, shifting sky, providing a fixed point for the traveler navigating the wide, unencumbered stretches of the plains.
History in Berea remains tethered to the slow, methodical labor of the soil and the endurance of those who first broke the sod to establish a life in the center of the continent. The local economy persists as a quiet extension of the regional cattle country, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the cycles of work and the movement of livestock across the shortgrass. While the silence of the plains often dominates, the proximity of Frost Reservoir offers a rare stillness to the land, and the trails near Laing Park serve as a reminder of the quiet, deliberate pace that defines daily existence here. Life in Berea is not measured by the clamor of external events, but by the steady, grounded patience of a landscape that has witnessed generations work the earth under the same wide, watchful heavens.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Berea, Nebraska. Coordinates: 42.21413, -102.980199. 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 Berea includes the ZIP code (69301), telephone area code (308), county seat of Box Butte County (Alliance), and school district assignment (Hemingford 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. |