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Mead Nebraska Map

Explore Mead, 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 Mead, Nebraska

How to Use This Mead, Nebraska Map

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

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

Latitude	41.227779
Longitude	-96.487802
Population	617
Density	391.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	68041
Area Code	402, 531
County Seat	Wahoo
School District	Mead Public Schools

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About Mead, Nebraska

Mead is a locality in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 617. The population density is 391.2 people per km². Mead is located at 41.2278°N, 96.4878°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mead is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68041.

Mead spreads across the flat, expansive plains of eastern Nebraska, where the horizon serves as the primary fact of life and the sky exerts a heavy, constant influence over the land. It lies 14.2 miles south of Fremont, NE (from Fremont, NE: bearing 178°T), and is situated 7.0 miles east of Wahoo. Beyond the grid of quiet streets, the terrain yields to the steady, rhythmic persistence of agricultural fields that stretch toward the distant silhouette of Bodleys Hill. The air here carries the dry, honest scent of turned soil, and at dusk, the light turns a bruised, singular violet that flattens the distance and makes the grain elevators appear as monoliths against the fading sun. A mile to the west, the quiet waters of Johnson Creek trace a thin, shaded line through the tallgrass, providing a rare vertical break in a landscape otherwise defined by the wide, uninterrupted sweep of the prairie.

Mead maintains a character shaped by the steady labor of the soil and the quiet endurance of those who work it. The local economy remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest, a rhythm that has dictated the pace of life since the earliest homesteaders broke the sod. While the modern world moves with a different intensity, the residents here find a different kind of commerce in the seasonal shift of the crops and the maintenance of the land. For those seeking a respite from the mechanical hum of the highway, the nearby Lake Wanahoo State Recreation Area offers a space where the prairie wind brushes against the water, and Johnson Creek Reservoir 22-A sits as a quiet, reflective anchor in the surrounding fields. Life here is not a performance, but a functional, persistent engagement with the earth, where the history of the plains is written in the fence lines and the long, straight roads that lead back to the center of Mead.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Atlas D Missile Site A-1 (Monument) — 2.9 mi, 176° S
Lake Wanahoo State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 6.0 mi, 274° W
Two Rivers State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 6.3 mi, 088° E
Two Rivers Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.7 mi, 099° E
Veterans Memorial Club (Monument) — 6.9 mi, 261° W
Saunders County Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 7.1 mi, 260° W
Saunders County Historical Museum (Museum) — 7.2 mi, 259° W
Hackberry Park (Local Park) — 7.5 mi, 263° W
Valley Historical Museum (Museum) — 9.2 mi, 051° NE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 10.9 mi, 070° E
Jack Sinn Memorial Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.4 mi, 201° S
Gallery of Art and Design (Public Artwork) — 13.6 mi, 079° E
Linoma Lighthouse (Attraction) — 14.3 mi, 142° SE
Zorinsky Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 14.4 mi, 089° E
Blush's Boutique (Gallery) — 14.4 mi, 155° SE
Willow Point Gallery (Gallery) — 14.4 mi, 155° SE
Eppley Auditorium (Theatre) — 14.5 mi, 360° N
Pohawk Point (Viewpoint) — 15.0 mi, 341° N
Louis E May Museum (Museum) — 15.0 mi, 357° N
Nebraska Railroad Museum (Museum) — 15.2 mi, 356° N
Pahuk (Historic Ruins) — 15.3 mi, 338° N
Main Street 7 Theatre (Cinema) — 15.6 mi, 000° N
Flanagan Lake & Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 15.7 mi, 064° NE
Eugene T. Mahoney State Park (State Park) — 15.8 mi, 147° SE
CHI Health Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 15.9 mi, 082° E
West Omaha Rock (Attraction) — 17.6 mi, 076° E
Bison (Attraction) — 17.7 mi, 145° SE
Platte River State Park (State Park) — 21.0 mi, 140° SE
Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.5 mi, 058° NE · 7,936 acres
Desoto National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.7 mi, 049° NE · 16k acres

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