Spalding Nebraska Map

About Spalding, Nebraska

Spalding is a locality in Greeley County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 408. The population density is 490.7 people per km². Spalding is located at 41.6889°N, 98.3634°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Spalding is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68665.

Spalding occupies a quiet expanse of the Nebraska plains where the sky holds more weight than the earth itself. It lies 52.8 miles north of Grand Island, NE (from Grand Island, NE: bearing 359°T), and is situated 33.1 miles north of St. Paul. Paul. The landscape around Spalding stretches out in wide, rhythmic swells of prairie, occasionally interrupted by the sharp, distant silhouette of Pilot Knob rising against the western horizon. Only a mile away, the Cedar River carves a narrow, wooded corridor through the fields, its water moving with a slow, deliberate purpose that dictates the pace of the surrounding countryside. During the long, bruised-purple hours of dusk, the light flattens across the grasses, turning the fields into a vast, muted canvas that seems to absorb the very sound of the wind.

Agriculture remains the steady pulse of the local economy, defined by the seasonal cycles of planting and harvest that have shaped the lives of families here for generations. While the town maintains a modest, unassuming character, it serves as a center for those who work the productive soil and manage the cattle herds that graze the edges of the Sandhills. Residents often head ten miles out to the Pibel Lake State Recreation Area, where Pibel Lake offers a rare, still mirror to the prairie sky and a place for quiet reflection away from the hum of machinery. The history of the area is etched into the sturdy brick facades and the long, straight roads that lead toward the horizon, reflecting a culture that values endurance and the honest labor of the hand.

About This Spalding Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Spalding, Nebraska. Coordinates: 41.6889, -98.363404. 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 Spalding includes the ZIP code (68665), telephone area code (402), county seat of Greeley County (Greeley Center), and school district assignment (Riverside Public 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.