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Rising City Nebraska Map

Explore Rising 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 Rising City, Nebraska

How to Use This Rising City, Nebraska Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Rising 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 Rising 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	Rising City
State	Nebraska (NE)
County	Butler County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.199458
Longitude	-97.296154
Population	356
Density	382.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	68658
Area Code	402
County Seat	David City
School District	Shelby-Rising City Public Schools

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About Rising City, Nebraska

Rising City is a locality in Butler County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 356. The population density is 382.9 people per km². Rising City is located at 41.1995°N, 97.2962°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Rising City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68658.

Rising City claims a quiet prominence upon the vast, flat expanse of the Nebraska plains, where the North Branch Big Blue River traces a singular, winding path through the heavy soil less than a mile from the center of the grid. It lies 16.3 miles south-southeast of Columbus, NE (from Columbus, NE: bearing 167°T), and is situated 9.4 miles west-southwest of David City. The horizon acts as the primary authority here, a relentless line that pulls the eye toward a sky so expansive it renders the architecture of the streets humble and spare. During the late hours of the day, the light bruises into shades of copper and violet, catching the stubble of harvested fields and turning the dust of the county roads into a fine, suspended gold. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the land stretches out in a patient, rhythmic cadence of prairie grass and working earth, occasionally interrupted by the distant, hazy silhouette of Indian Hill rising twenty-three miles away to anchor the otherwise unbroken periphery.

Settled by those who sought to turn the stubborn sod into a predictable harvest, Rising City remains anchored to the economics of the plow and the silo, maintaining a pace dictated by the seasonal cycle of planting and yield. Life here is measured not by the clock, but by the slow rotation of the crops and the steady endurance of those who have made this geography their own through generations of labor. While the silence of the plains often dominates, the social geography of the region finds expression in simple, unadorned spaces like the Unknown Ball Park, located nine miles off, or the occasional retreat to the edges of the Gruenewald Reservoir seven miles distant. These landmarks serve as quiet punctuation marks in a landscape that values the tangible over the ornamental, preserving a way of life that finds its dignity in the simple repetition of chores and the enduring connection to the dark, fertile loam.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Unknown Ball Park (Local Recreation) — 9.2 mi, 064° NE
Butler County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 9.3 mi, 066° NE
Flatsedge Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.4 mi, 279° W
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 10.0 mi, 064° NE
War Memorial (Monument) — 12.9 mi, 265° W
Pawnee Park (Local Park) — 15.4 mi, 348° N
Union Veterans of the Civil War Memorial (Monument) — 16.3 mi, 348° N
Platte County Historical Museum (Museum) — 16.5 mi, 348° N
Duncan 1871-1971 Historical Marker (Monument) — 16.6 mi, 322° NW
Redtail Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.7 mi, 115° SE
Stage (Theatre) — 16.8 mi, 249° W
Seward County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 18.6 mi, 190° S
Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 19.7 mi, 347° N
Schuyler/Colfax County Museum (Museum) — 21.1 mi, 036° NE
York County Waterfowl Production Area (Resource Management Area) — 21.7 mi, 205° SW
The Light Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 22.3 mi, 151° SE
Bartels Museum of Rocks and Minerals (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 151° SE
Branched Oak Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 22.6 mi, 122° SE
Seward County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 25.5 mi, 171° S
Branched Oak State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 25.8 mi, 127° SE
Pawnee Lake State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 31.1 mi, 139° SE
Legendary Josh Battlefield (Registered Battlefield) — 35.1 mi, 131° SE
Pahuk (Historic Ruins) — 39.7 mi, 066° NE
Hilltop Prairie (Nature Reserve) — 39.8 mi, 137° SE
Verley Prairie (Nature Reserve) — 39.9 mi, 138° SE
Bison Viewing Area (Viewpoint) — 40.0 mi, 138° SE
Detroit-Lincoln-Denver Highway Marker (Attraction) — 40.1 mi, 131° SE
The Haymarket Theatre (Theatre) — 40.5 mi, 131° SE
Hamilton County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 44.7 mi, 228° SW · 324 acres
Desoto National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 67.9 mi, 071° E · 16k acres

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