Cedar Rapids Nebraska Map

About Cedar Rapids, Nebraska

Cedar Rapids is a locality in Boone County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 382. The population density is 412.0 people per km². Cedar Rapids is located at 41.5600°N, 98.1445°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cedar Rapids is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68627.

Cedar Rapids emerges from the expansive Nebraska plains as a quiet intersection of earth and sky, defined primarily by the slow, deliberate current of the Cedar River that drifts past its borders. It lies 41.2 miles west-northwest of Columbus, NE (from Columbus, NE: bearing 283°T), and is situated 31.6 miles north-northwest of Central City. The landscape here is one of vast, open horizons where the wind moves through tallgrass and shortgrass prairie with a persistent, rhythmic hum, uninterrupted by the distant, jagged silhouette of Pilot Knob rising five miles to the west. On humid summer afternoons, the light takes on a heavy, golden quality, casting long shadows across the flat fields that seem to stretch toward the edge of the world. Water remains a quiet companion to the land, found in the stillness of Loeffler Reservoir just two miles away, which serves as a reflective mirror for the shifting clouds that dominate the regional climate.

Cedar Rapids carries the weight of a pioneer memory, its economy deeply tethered to the cycles of agriculture that have sustained the region for generations. Life in Cedar Rapids operates on a scale dictated by the harvest and the changing seasons, far removed from the frantic pace of larger centers of industry. While the local rhythm is steady and grounded in the quiet work of cattle country, the nearby Beaver Bend Wildlife Management Area, located thirteen miles away, preserves a fragment of the wilder, undisturbed character of the plains. Residents move through their days with an awareness of the land’s austerity, finding beauty in the stark clarity of a winter sunrise or the way the prairie grass turns a deep, bruised purple in the low light of dusk.

About This Cedar Rapids Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cedar Rapids, Nebraska. Coordinates: 41.560013, -98.144508. 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 Rapids includes the ZIP code (68627), telephone area code (402), county seat of Boone County (Albion), and school district assignment (Riverside 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.