Cornlea Nebraska Map

About Cornlea, Nebraska

Cornlea is a locality in Platte County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 33. The population density is 138.5 people per km². Cornlea is located at 41.6800°N, 97.5664°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cornlea is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68642.

Cornlea sits upon a vast, level expanse of the Great Plains where the sky exerts a singular, crushing authority over the earth. It lies 20.1 miles north-northwest of Columbus, NE (from Columbus, NE: bearing 329°T), and is situated 11.7 miles south-southwest of Madison. The horizon functions as the primary fact of life here, a clean, unyielding line that separates the pale, sun-bleached grasses from the deepening indigo of the evening. Two miles to the west, Elm Creek carves a narrow, sluggish path through the silt, its banks lined with the gnarled silhouettes of cottonwoods that shudder in the persistent wind. During the height of the summer, the air carries a dry, metallic heat that seems to hum against the skin, while the light at dusk turns the surrounding fields into a bruised, golden copper, casting long, lean shadows that stretch toward the edges of the world.

Cornlea functions as a quiet node in the machinery of regional agriculture, defined by the seasonal pulse of planting and harvest. The local economy remains anchored to the productivity of the surrounding soil, where the rhythmic clatter of machinery replaces the silence of the prairie during the long, labor-intensive months of autumn. History here is kept in the quiet maintenance of fence lines and the modest, utilitarian architecture of grain elevators that stand as sentinels against the emptiness. Residents who seek a respite from the intensity of the fields often travel twelve miles to reach the quiet waters of Goedeken Reservoir or find a deeper stillness among the native grasses of the Wilkinson Wildlife Management Area. Life in Cornlea moves with a deliberate, measured pace, indifferent to the urgent noise of distant urban centers, focusing instead on the immediate, tangible demands of the land and the changing color of the clouds.

About This Cornlea Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cornlea, Nebraska. Coordinates: 41.680009, -97.566437. 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 Cornlea includes the ZIP code (68642), telephone area code (402), county seat of Platte County (Columbus), and school district assignment (Humphrey 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.