Elmwood Nebraska Map

About Elmwood, Nebraska

Elmwood is a locality in Cass County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 654. The population density is 673.4 people per km². Elmwood is located at 40.8417°N, 96.2936°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Elmwood is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68349.

Elmwood anchors itself firmly within the expansive, wind-swept plains where the horizon serves as the primary gauge of time and distance. It lies 19.7 miles east of Lincoln, NE (from Lincoln, NE: bearing 81°T), and is situated 13.3 miles east-southeast of Waverly. Stove Creek carves a persistent, narrow path through the landscape, its seasonal flow providing a quiet, rhythmic counterpoint to the stillness of the surrounding farmland. The earth here is deep and dark, yielding to the heavy machinery of agriculture, while the quality of light at dusk stretches long, violet shadows across the fields, turning the soil into a bruised, velvet canvas. While the terrain remains largely level, the subtle depressions of the earth capture the runoff of spring rains, directing moisture toward the quiet basin of Wilson Creek Reservoir 12-25.

Elmwood emerged from the necessity of the rail line, a point of collection for the grain that defines the local economy and the seasonal pulse of the region. The history of the area remains etched into the sturdy, unadorned architecture of the storefronts, which serve as silent witnesses to generations of settlers who worked the prairie sod into productive rows. Life in Elmwood moves with the deliberate pace of a long-settled place, where the residents look toward the distant, hazy outline of King Hill as a marker of the vastness beyond their own borders. A short drive away, the Nebraska Otoe County Fee offers a brief sanctuary of wilder growth, a reminder of the tallgrass that once dominated this expanse before the plow arrived to organize the land.

About This Elmwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Elmwood, Nebraska. Coordinates: 40.841667, -96.293622. 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 Elmwood includes the ZIP code (68349), telephone area code (402), county seat of Cass County (Plattsmouth), and school district assignment (Elmwood-Murdock 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.