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Scribner Nebraska Map

Explore Scribner, 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 Scribner, Nebraska

How to Use This Scribner, Nebraska Map

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

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.

CityScribner
StateNebraska (NE)
CountyDodge County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude41.666666
Longitude-96.665862
Population843
Density500.0 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code68057
Area Code402, 531
County SeatFremont
School DistrictScribner-Snyder Community Schools

About Scribner, Nebraska

Scribner is a locality in Dodge County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 843. The population density is 500.0 people per km². Scribner is located at 41.6667°N, 96.6659°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Scribner is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68057.

Scribner occupies a broad expanse of the Nebraska plains where the horizon functions as the primary fact of life, flattening the world into a vast, open theater for the sky. It lies 18.3 miles north-northwest of Fremont, NE (from Fremont, NE: bearing 332°T), and is situated 12.3 miles south of West Point. The Elkhorn River carves a serpentine path through the alluvial soil just outside the settlement, its waters moving with a quiet, persistent gravity that dictates the local drainage and the lushness of the riparian corridors. Beyond the immediate banks, the land stretches into a patchwork of cultivated fields and remnant prairie grasses that turn a brittle, pale gold under the autumn sun. To the west, the subtle rise of the terrain occasionally suggests the distant presence of Indian Peak, though the eye is more often drawn to the low, wooded pockets of the Powder Horn Wildlife Management Area, where the density of the brush offers a rare, shadowed relief from the unrelenting exposure of the flatlands.

Scribner emerged from the late nineteenth-century push of the rail lines, serving as a vital node for the movement of grain and livestock that anchored the regional economy. The rhythm of existence here remains tethered to the harvest, with the silos standing as vertical sentinels that mark the transition between the labor of the field and the quietude of the residential streets. While the daily pace is deliberate and unadorned, the influence of the land remains profound; residents often look toward the Paulson-Glodowski Reservoir when seeking a reprieve from the heat, finding a different kind of stillness in the way the light catches the surface of the water at dusk. This is a place where the history of the soil is written in the geometry of the fences and the persistence of the local crops, maintaining a steady, grounded character that resists the frantic shifts of the wider world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Musbach Museum (Museum) — 0.0 mi, 196° S
  • Powder Horn Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.0 mi, 334° NW
  • Dead Timber State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 3.4 mi, 343° N
  • Hooper (Monument) — 8.0 mi, 126° SE
  • Wilderness Park (Local Conservation Area) — 11.3 mi, 354° N
  • Cuming County Historical Society Museum Complex (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 350° N
  • Neligh Park (Local Park) — 12.3 mi, 348° N
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 12.4 mi, 349° N
  • Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 15.5 mi, 165° S
  • Pahuk (Historic Ruins) — 16.5 mi, 168° S
  • Bramble Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.5 mi, 183° S
  • Pohawk Point (Viewpoint) — 16.7 mi, 165° S
  • Christensen Fields (Local Recreation) — 16.7 mi, 155° SE
  • Nebraska Railroad Museum (Museum) — 17.2 mi, 152° SE
  • Main Street 7 Theatre (Cinema) — 17.5 mi, 148° SE
  • Louis E May Museum (Museum) — 17.5 mi, 151° SE
  • Howells Museum (Museum) — 17.7 mi, 283° W
  • Welcome to Fremont Historic Downtown (Monument) — 18.2 mi, 151° SE
  • All Gave Some | Some Gave All (Monument) — 18.3 mi, 152° SE
  • Eppley Auditorium (Theatre) — 18.3 mi, 150° SE
  • Tower of the Four Winds (Attraction) — 27.2 mi, 107° E
  • Madsen Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 27.6 mi, 107° E
  • Desoto National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 33.0 mi, 106° E · 16k acres
  • Steamboat Bertrand Discovery Site Historical Marker (Attraction) — 34.4 mi, 107° E
  • Murray Hall (Attraction) — 34.5 mi, 073° E
  • Gallery of Art and Design (Public Artwork) — 35.8 mi, 141° SE
  • Lewis and Clark State Park (State Park) — 36.0 mi, 044° NE
  • West Sea Ray Sandbar (Attraction) — 36.7 mi, 034° NE
  • Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.9 mi, 112° E · 7,936 acres
  • Eugene T. Mahoney State Park (State Park) — 47.0 mi, 158° S

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About This Scribner Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Scribner, Nebraska. Coordinates: 41.666666, -96.665862. 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 Scribner includes the ZIP code (68057), telephone area code (402, 531), county seat of Dodge County (Fremont), and school district assignment (Scribner-Snyder Community 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.