Explore Fullerton, 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 Fullerton, 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 Fullerton.
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 | Fullerton |
| State | Nebraska (NE) |
| County | Nance County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.363348 |
| Longitude | -97.969225 |
| Population | 1,244 |
| Density | 368.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 68638 |
| Area Code | 402 |
| County Seat | Fullerton |
| School District | Fullerton Public Schools |
Fullerton emerges from the vast Nebraska plains as a quiet intersection of sky and soil, where the horizon stretches into an infinite, pale blue arc. It lies 31.5 miles west of Columbus, NE (from Columbus, NE: bearing 262°T), and is situated 17.2 miles north of Central City. The landscape around Fullerton is defined by the steady, unhurried presence of the Cedar River, which carves a modest path through the earth only a mile from the center of the grid. To the north, the land rises in subtle, rhythmic swells, hinting at the rugged transition toward the Sandhills, while the calm waters of Horn Reservoir wait just two miles away to catch the amber light of the setting sun. The air here holds a crisp, dry clarity that sharpens the silhouettes of distant grain elevators, and in the quiet of evening, the immense prairie silence presses against the edges of the streets, reminding the traveler of the profound scale of this open country.
Agriculture remains the pulse of the local economy, driving the steady mechanical hum of planting and harvest that dictates the seasonal cadence of life in Fullerton. As the county seat, the town maintains a traditional character, centered around the sturdy architecture of local commerce and the enduring presence of the courthouse clock tower, which marks time for a population deeply tied to the cycles of the earth. Beyond the immediate municipal borders, the Council Creek Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary seven miles away where the native tallgrass persists, a remnant of the wilder, pioneer memory that once shaped this territory. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands the gravity of the seasons, where the primary labor of the field is balanced by the enduring, grounded connection to a landscape that feels as expansive and permanent as the horizon itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fullerton, Nebraska. Coordinates: 41.363348, -97.969225. 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 Fullerton includes the ZIP code (68638), telephone area code (402), county seat of Nance County (Fullerton), and school district assignment (Fullerton 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. |