Cedar Rapids Nebraska Map
Explore Cedar Rapids, 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.
Interactive Map of Cedar Rapids, Nebraska
How to Use This Cedar Rapids, Nebraska Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Cedar Rapids, 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 Cedar Rapids.
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 | Cedar Rapids |
| State | Nebraska (NE) |
| County | Boone County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.560013 |
| Longitude | -98.144508 |
| Population | 382 |
| Density | 412.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 68627 |
| Area Code | 402 |
| County Seat | Albion |
| School District | Riverside Public Schools |
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.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Gateway Theater (Cinema) — 11.7 mi, 039° NE
- Beaver Bend Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.3 mi, 082° E
- Nance County Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 15.9 mi, 147° SE
- Don Dworak Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 22.3 mi, 115° SE
- Pibel Lake State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 24.0 mi, 304° NW
- North Loup State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 25.8 mi, 218° SW
- Gruber House (Museum) — 28.8 mi, 214° SW
- Howard County Historical Village (Museum) — 28.8 mi, 214° SW
- Museum of Nebraska Major League Baseball (Museum) — 28.9 mi, 214° SW
- Heber Hord House historical marker (Monument) — 31.6 mi, 166° S
- Lone Tree (Monument) — 32.1 mi, 168° S
- Farwell Museum (Museum) — 34.6 mi, 227° SW
- Meadow Grove Museum (Museum) — 38.6 mi, 033° NE
- Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 40.0 mi, 098° E
- Sherman Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 40.2 mi, 248° W
- Stage (Theatre) — 41.9 mi, 137° SE
- Indian Hill Cemetery (Historic Ruins) — 42.8 mi, 289° W
- Hamilton County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 56.0 mi, 169° S · 324 acres
- Hall County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 61.6 mi, 206° SW · 642 acres
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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).
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. |
