Explore Louisville, 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 Louisville, 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 Louisville.
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 | Louisville |
| State | Nebraska (NE) |
| County | Cass County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.997776 |
| Longitude | -96.162235 |
| Population | 1,319 |
| Density | 784.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 68037 |
| Area Code | 402, 531 |
| County Seat | Plattsmouth |
| School District | Louisville Public Schools |
Louisville unfolds across a landscape defined by the persistent, winding presence of Mill Creek, which carves a quiet path through the surrounding plains. It lies 12.5 miles south-southwest of Papillion, NE (from Papillion, NE: bearing 210°T), and is situated 17.1 miles southwest of Bellevue. The horizon remains the primary fact of life here, a vast and unobstructed line where the sky presses down upon the earth with a weight that shifts from pale gold at dawn to a deep, bruised violet as evening settles. Within the immediate vicinity, the Louisville State Recreation Area provides a series of sandpits that mirror the changing clouds, while the land itself rises into subtle, grass-covered swells that suggest the ancient movement of the prairie. Beyond the immediate town limits, one might travel toward the Platte River State Park Trails to walk ground that feels both ancient and enduring, a space where the wind carries the dry, sweet scent of tallgrass across the open expanse.
Louisville maintains a character forged by the steady industry of limestone quarrying, an economy that has literally shaped the physical foundations of the region for generations. This labor has left its mark upon the local geography, creating deep, water-filled basins that now serve as a testament to the intersection of human enterprise and the natural environment. While the pace of life remains deliberate, the influence of regional history persists in the quiet resilience of the buildings and the way the light catches the dust rising from gravel roads in the late afternoon. Though King Hill stands as a distant point of reference on the horizon, the daily experience of Louisville is grounded in the immediate, tangible rhythm of a place that values the slow, circular turn of the seasons and the quiet persistence of the land itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Louisville, Nebraska. Coordinates: 40.997776, -96.162235. 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 Louisville includes the ZIP code (68037), telephone area code (402, 531), county seat of Cass County (Plattsmouth), and school district assignment (Louisville 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. |