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Loup City Nebraska Map

Explore Loup City, 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 Loup City, Nebraska

How to Use This Loup City, Nebraska Map

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

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	Loup City
State	Nebraska (NE)
County	Sherman County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.275565
Longitude	-98.966753
Population	1,053
Density	431.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	68853
Area Code	308
County Seat	Loup City
School District	Loup City Public Schools

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About Loup City, Nebraska

Loup City is a locality in Sherman County, Nebraska, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,053. The population density is 431.6 people per km². Loup City is located at 41.2756°N, 98.9668°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Loup City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68853.

Loup City emerges from the expansive Nebraska plains where the horizon functions as the primary fact of life, flattening the sky into a vast, pale dome above the earth. It lies 40.3 miles north of Kearney, NE (from Kearney, NE: bearing 9°T), and is situated 26.8 miles west of St. Paul. Paul. Dead Horse Creek carves a quiet, meandering path through the local topography, its presence a subtle vein of moisture in an otherwise arid expanse of grasses. Only three miles away, the expansive waters of Sherman Reservoir gather under the heat of the sun, reflecting the drift of clouds that seem to traverse the entire state without interruption. A mile from the center of Loup City, the Bowman Lake State Recreation Area offers a stillness that defines the regional character, where the wind carries the scent of dry soil and the faint, rhythmic rustle of prairie stalks.

Agriculture dictates the pace of days in Loup City, as the economy remains tethered to the cycles of planting and harvest that have sustained this region since its initial settlement. The local architecture is anchored by the presence of a county-seat clock tower, a vertical marker that punctuates the otherwise horizontal reach of the landscape. Life here is measured not in the frantic rush of urban centers, but in the slow, deliberate movements of cattle country and the seasonal changes that strip the trees bare or fill the fields with gold. Residents often look toward the distant silhouette of Happy Jack Peak, which rises eighteen miles away as a faint, jagged reminder of the wider geological shifts that shaped this land long before the arrival of the plow.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Sherman County Historical Museum (Museum) — 0.0 mi, 270° W
Bowman Lake State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 1.2 mi, 264° W
Sherman Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 2.8 mi, 063° NE
Sherman Reservoir Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 068° E
Farwell Museum (Museum) — 18.1 mi, 103° E
CCC Camp Ravenna Nebraska Historical Marker (Monument) — 18.4 mi, 170° S
Post South Loup Fork 'Fort Banishment' Historical Marker (Monument) — 18.4 mi, 170° S
North Loup State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 26.4 mi, 092° E
Museum of Nebraska Major League Baseball (Museum) — 26.8 mi, 099° E
Gruber House (Museum) — 26.8 mi, 099° E
Howard County Historical Village (Museum) — 26.8 mi, 099° E
Leonard A. Koziol Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 28.3 mi, 091° E
Indian Hill Cemetery (Historic Ruins) — 33.6 mi, 003° N
Veterans' Memorial (Monument) — 36.1 mi, 346° N
Hall County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 38.5 mi, 157° SE · 642 acres
Mall 7 Cinemas (Cinema) — 38.5 mi, 127° SE
Marcia Smith Auditorium (Theatre) — 40.3 mi, 328° NW
Hornady Marshall Auditorium (Theatre) — 40.8 mi, 131° SE
Sandhill Cranes (Public Artwork) — 41.8 mi, 190° S
Fort Kearney Historical Marker (Attraction) — 43.0 mi, 193° S
Big Bird House (Attraction) — 52.7 mi, 153° SE
Cliff Church (Historic Ruins) — 53.2 mi, 284° W
Art Center (Arts Centre) — 56.6 mi, 147° SE
Gateway Theater (Cinema) — 57.7 mi, 060° NE
John W. And Louise Seier National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 70.3 mi, 335° NW · 4,806 acres
Nebraska National Forest (National Forest) — 73.5 mi, 301° NW · 141k acres

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