Dix Nebraska Map

About Dix, Nebraska

Dix is a locality in Kimball County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 187. The population density is 328.2 people per km². Dix is located at 41.2353°N, 103.4863°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Dix is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 69133.

Dix emerges from the vast, high-plains expanse of the Nebraska panhandle as a quiet collection of structures anchored to the earth by the sheer weight of the horizon. It lies 44.6 miles south-southeast of Scottsbluff, NE (from Scottsbluff, NE: bearing 168°T), and is situated 9.2 miles east of Kimball. The land here is defined by an uncompromising openness, where the sky claims more territory than the soil, and the wind moves across the shortgrass prairie with a persistent, rhythmic sigh. To the south, the modest channel of Lodgepole Creek carves a shallow, verdant ribbon through the otherwise arid landscape, providing a meager but vital refuge for cottonwoods and scrub. Fifteen miles to the west, the dark, singular silhouette of Lone Pine Butte provides the only interruption to an otherwise level line of sight, casting long, thin shadows when the sun dips low and turns the pale grasses into a shimmering, brittle gold.

Agriculture remains the singular pulse of Dix, a place where the economy is measured in bushels and the slow, heavy turn of the seasons. The settlement grew alongside the expansion of the rail lines that once brought a frantic, metallic energy to the plains, though today the pace has settled into a meditative stillness that favors endurance over speed. While Gadway Reservoir lies a few miles away, offering a brief catchment for the region's sparse precipitation, the true character of the locality is found in the labor of the surrounding wheat fields and the stoic maintenance of the homesteads. Those who travel further afield for recreation often head toward Oliver Reservoir State Recreation Area, yet the daily life of Dix remains tethered to the immediate, sun-bleached reality of the high plains, where the passage of time is marked not by clocks, but by the subtle shifts in the quality of the light and the changing color of the ripening grain.

About This Dix Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Dix, Nebraska. Coordinates: 41.235258, -103.486325. 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 Dix includes the ZIP code (69133), telephone area code (308), county seat of Kimball County (Kimball), and school district assignment (Potter-Dix 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.