Explore Deweese, 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 Deweese, 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 Deweese.
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 | Deweese |
| State | Nebraska (NE) |
| County | Clay County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.354733 |
| Longitude | -98.138657 |
| Population | 42 |
| Density | 128.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 68934 |
| Area Code | 308 |
| County Seat | Clay Center |
| School District | Sandy Creek Schools |
Deweese anchors itself to the expansive Nebraska plains where the horizon functions as the primary, immutable fact of life. It lies 20.7 miles southeast of Hastings, NE (from Hastings, NE: bearing 141°T), and is situated 30.9 miles west-southwest of Geneva. Liberty Creek carves a persistent, quiet path through the surrounding fields, its ribbon of dark earth contrasting against the vast, pale expanse of the prairie grasses. Two miles to the north, the waters of Skalka Reservoir hold the reflection of the immense, vaulted sky, providing a stillness that defines the regional character. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, heavy quality, turning the tallgrass into a sea of amber that seems to pulse with the slow, cooling breath of the earth.
Deweese retains the quiet, deliberate pace of a place built upon the labor of the soil, where the local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of seasonal harvest and the endurance of the cattle trade. Though the echoes of pioneer memory linger in the architecture of the older structures, the present day is marked by the steady, unadorned maintenance of life on the Great Plains. Three miles away, the Bulrush Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary for the native fauna, preserving a patch of the landscape as it existed before the plow. In the absence of grand monuments, the dignity of Deweese is found in the persistence of its people, who navigate the vast, open silence with a stoic and practiced grace.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Deweese, Nebraska. Coordinates: 40.354733, -98.138657. 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 Deweese includes the ZIP code (68934), telephone area code (308), county seat of Clay County (Clay Center), and school district assignment (Sandy Creek 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. |