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Gilead Nebraska Map

Explore Gilead, 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.

Interactive Map of Gilead, Nebraska

How to Use This Gilead, Nebraska Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Gilead, 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 Gilead.

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	Gilead
State	Nebraska (NE)
County	Thayer County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	40.146392
Longitude	-97.413096
Population	30
Density	167.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	68362
Area Code	402
County Seat	Hebron
School District	Thayer Central Community Schools

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About Gilead, Nebraska

Gilead is a locality in Thayer County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 30. The population density is 167.9 people per km². Gilead is located at 40.1464°N, 97.4131°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Gilead is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68362.

Gilead manifests as a quiet intersection of earth and sky, where the horizon serves as the primary arbiter of the day. It lies 36.1 miles west-southwest of Beatrice, NE (from Beatrice, NE: bearing 257°T), and is situated 12.3 miles west of Fairbury. The land here is an expanse of broad, rhythmic plains that hold the light until it deepens into a bruised purple, casting long, lean shadows across the rows of grain. Two miles to the east, the Little Blue River traces a modest, steady path through the soil, its banks lined with the persistent green of cottonwoods that break the monotony of the tallgrass prairie. Further out, the landscape yields to the stillness of Buckley Creek Reservoir 3-C, a quiet basin that mirrors the vast, shifting clouds of the Nebraska sky. The air carries a scent of dry earth and turning stalks, a grounded clarity that seems to sharpen the senses as the sun dips below the flat edge of the world.

Gilead remains tethered to the cycles of the agricultural calendar, its economy defined by the labor of the harvest and the patient management of the surrounding fields. The history of the area is etched into the architecture of the modest dwellings and the straight, purposeful lines of the local roads, reflecting a legacy of resilience shaped by the demands of the prairie. Residents often look toward the Meridian Wildlife Management Area for a reminder of the wilder, uncultivated state of the region, where the native grasses still hold sway over the silence. Life in Gilead moves with the deliberate pace of those who understand that survival is a matter of long-term attention to the soil, leaving little room for artifice in the day-to-day work of maintaining a life on the high plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Meridian Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.6 mi, 001° N
Little Blue East Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.8 mi, 286° W
Alexandria State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 7.1 mi, 034° NE
Professional Surveyors Of The United States (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 167° S
Sixth Principal Meridian (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 167° S
Forty-Niner Trail Historical Marker (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 314° NW
Thayer County Museum (Museum) — 10.8 mi, 314° NW
Fiarbury City Park (Local Park) — 11.6 mi, 092° E
Mcnish Park (Local Park) — 12.6 mi, 090° E
Jefferson County Historical Museum (Museum) — 12.7 mi, 094° E
Bruning Army Airfield (Historic Ruins) — 13.5 mi, 355° N
Tobias Community Historical Museum (Museum) — 19.2 mi, 012° N
Washington State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 20.8 mi, 133° SE
Saline Fsa (National Wildlife Refuge) — 21.0 mi, 038° NE · 124 acres
Fillmore County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 23.4 mi, 315° NW
Amphitheatre (Arts Centre) — 24.5 mi, 208° SW
High Banks Racing Museum (Museum) — 24.9 mi, 208° SW
Republic County Historical Society (Museum) — 25.9 mi, 207° SW
Clay County Waterfowl Production Area Of Ne (Resource Management Area) — 30.3 mi, 312° NW
Approximate site of Squatter's Cabin 1862 (Viewpoint) — 32.0 mi, 072° E
Underbridge Mario (Public Artwork) — 36.0 mi, 078° E
The Carnegie Building (Gallery) — 36.1 mi, 076° E
Lovewell State Park (State Park) — 37.1 mi, 242° SW
Frager Field (Historic Ruins) — 40.1 mi, 300° NW
Cassell Open Air Theatre (Theatre) — 41.0 mi, 036° NE
Brown Grand Opera House (Theatre) — 41.9 mi, 199° S
Hamilton County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 50.2 mi, 327° NW · 324 acres
Monument to the Ice Age (Attraction) — 51.2 mi, 129° SE
Roca Berry Farm (Attraction) — 52.1 mi, 048° NE
Tuttle Creek State Parks (State Park) — 60.1 mi, 143° SE

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