Meadow Grove Nebraska Map

About Meadow Grove, Nebraska

Meadow Grove is a locality in Madison County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 287. The population density is 363.3 people per km². Meadow Grove is located at 42.0289°N, 97.7339°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Meadow Grove is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68752.

Meadow Grove occupies a quiet expanse of the Nebraska plains where the horizon functions as the primary fact of existence, stretching wide and flat under a sky that seems to press closer to the earth at dusk. It lies 16.3 miles west of Norfolk, NE (from Norfolk, NE: bearing 270°T), and is situated 19.9 miles northwest of Madison. Buffalo Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the terrain, its banks lined with the persistent green of native grasses that sway in the constant, restless wind. Only a few miles away, the landscape shifts toward the hushed, sheltered environment of the Yellowbanks Wildlife Management Area, where the land holds a different, more secretive stillness. The light here has a way of clarifying the edges of things, turning the distant silhouettes of grain elevators into sharp, dark ink strokes against the pale transition of the evening.

Meadow Grove persists as a place defined by the slow, deliberate work of the soil and the legacy of families who have measured their lives by the planting and the harvest. The local economy remains anchored to the rhythms of agriculture, a quiet industry that dictates the pace of the day and the hum of machinery that periodically travels across the open fields. Those seeking the reprieve of movement often look toward the Tilden Nature Trail or the quiet shores of Jackson Lake, spaces that offer a necessary pause from the labor of the surrounding cattle country. Life in Meadow Grove carries the weight of a long memory, lingering in the way the wind catches the tallgrass and the way the shadows lengthen across the gravel roads as the day finally concedes to the dark.

About This Meadow Grove Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Meadow Grove, Nebraska. Coordinates: 42.028895, -97.733948. 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 Meadow Grove includes the ZIP code (68752), telephone area code (402), county seat of Madison County (Madison), and school district assignment (Elkhorn Valley Schools).

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.