Cedar Creek Nebraska Map

About Cedar Creek, Nebraska

Cedar Creek is a locality in Cass County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 465. The population density is 314.4 people per km². Cedar Creek is located at 41.0456°N, 96.1017°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cedar Creek is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68016.

Cedar Creek stretches across the expansive, open plains of eastern Nebraska, where the horizon serves as the primary arbiter of the day. It lies 8.7 miles south-southwest of Papillion, NE (from Papillion, NE: bearing 200°T), and is situated 17.5 miles south-southwest of Omaha. The landscape is defined by a slow, rhythmic transition from flat agricultural fields to the quiet, shaded banks of Cedar Creek, which meanders only a mile from the center of the locality. Tallgrass and shortgrass prairie grasses sway in the constant wind, their movement creating a liquid, golden shimmer under the shifting light of the afternoon. To the distance, the silhouette of King Hill breaks the monotony of the flatlands, a lonely sentinel rising seventeen miles away to remind the traveler of the earth's subtle, ancient shifts. The air here holds the dry, honest scent of turned soil and cured hay, a sensory map that marks the passage of the seasons more clearly than any calendar.

Cedar Creek maintains a character forged by the steady, industrious pace of land-tending families who have long anchored the local economy to the fertility of the surrounding soil. While the rhythm of modern life pulses through the nearby highways, much of the vitality of Cedar Creek remains tied to the cycles of the harvest and the quiet maintenance of the plains. Residents often seek the stillness of the Cedar Creek Island Wildlife Management Area, where the riparian corridor offers a refuge for native birds and a stark, beautiful contrast to the managed rows of the surrounding farms. History here is not found in grand monuments, but in the enduring way the community organizes itself around the needs of the land, respecting the solitude that comes with living beneath such an immense, cloud-swept sky.

About This Cedar Creek Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cedar Creek, Nebraska. Coordinates: 41.045564, -96.101748. 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 Cedar Creek includes the ZIP code (68016), telephone area code (402, 531), county seat of Cass County (Plattsmouth), and school district assignment (Louisville 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.