Explore Lorenzo, 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 Lorenzo, 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 Lorenzo.
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 | Lorenzo |
| State | Nebraska (NE) |
| County | Cheyenne County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Mountain Time (America/Denver) |
| Latitude | 41.057574 |
| Longitude | -103.082098 |
| Population | 36 |
| Density | 2.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 69162 |
| Area Code | 308 |
| County Seat | Sidney |
| School District | Sidney Public Schools |
Lorenzo marks a quiet pause upon the vast, sun-bleached expanse of the Nebraska plains, where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 30.1 miles north-northeast of Sterling, CO (from Sterling, CO: bearing 14°T), and is situated 8.1 miles southwest of Sidney. The horizon acts as the primary fact of life here, a flat, unrelenting line that keeps the focus tethered to the shifting light and the subtle, rhythmic sway of the prairie grasses. To the north, the elevation rises toward the distant silhouette of Haystack Butte, while the landscape dips into the quiet, dry depressions of Sand Draw. Nearby, Cow Creek traces a thin, seasonal thread through the dust, offering little more than a momentary dampness to the parched soil, while the stillness of Ruther Reservoir waits eight miles away, reflecting the immense, cloud-streaked vault of the atmosphere.
Lorenzo persists as a testament to the endurance of the high plains, rooted in the hard-won legacy of agricultural labor and the movement of those who once followed the Sidney Deadwood Trail. The local economy remains tethered to the cycle of the harvest and the resilience of cattle country, where the pace of the day is dictated by the turning of the seasons rather than the ticking of a clock. Residents often find their way to Legion Park for a rare break in the routine, finding in that open space a familiar comfort against the backdrop of an unforgiving climate. Life in Lorenzo moves with a deliberate, sparse grace, shaped by the weight of a history that values the strength of the individual against the sheer, overwhelming emptiness of the western vista.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lorenzo, Nebraska. Coordinates: 41.057574, -103.082098. 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 Lorenzo includes the ZIP code (69162), telephone area code (308), county seat of Cheyenne County (Sidney), and school district assignment (Sidney 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. |