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St. Helena Nebraska Map

Explore St. Helena, 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 St. Helena, Nebraska

How to Use This St. Helena, Nebraska Map

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

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.

CitySt. Helena
StateNebraska (NE)
CountyCedar County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude42.80972
Longitude-97.248942
Population89
Density77.4 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code68774
Area Code402
County SeatHartington
School DistrictWynot Public Schools

About St. Helena, Nebraska

St. Helena is a locality in Cedar County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 89. The population density is 77.4 people per km². St. Helena is located at 42.8097°N, 97.2489°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. St. Helena is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 68774.

St. Helena emerges from the vast, open expanse of the Nebraska plains as a quiet collection of structures defined by the immense scale of the sky above it. It lies 8.6 miles east-southeast of Yankton, SD (from Yankton, SD: bearing 119°T), and is situated 16.3 miles west of Vermillion. The horizon serves as the primary fact of life here, where the land stretches into a subtle, undulating prairie that holds the light of dusk until every blade of grass seems etched in deepening shades of gold and violet. Just two miles to the north, the Missouri River carves a slow, deliberate path through the landscape, acting as a constant, rhythmic presence that anchors the earth to the shifting patterns of the seasons. The air carries a crisp, clean weight, unburdened by the clamor of dense population, leaving the silence of the fields to amplify the distant, solitary calls of meadowlarks.

St. Helena carries the quiet gravity of a place built by those who sought permanence in the fertile, unforgiving soil of the frontier. The local economy remains deeply tied to the rhythms of agriculture, with the surrounding fields functioning as the lifeblood of the neighborhood. Beyond the immediate reach of the farms, the Missouri National Recreational River offers a protected sanctuary for the wilder remnants of the landscape, standing six miles away as a testament to the preservation of the regional ecosystem. While Lake Yankton lies eleven miles distant and the distant, singular rise of Spirit Mound marks the outer rim of the traveler’s view, the internal life of St. Helena centers on the enduring character of its residents. It is a place where the passage of time is measured not by the clock, but by the slow, steady labor of the harvest and the persistent, unyielding nature of the prairie wind.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Missouri National Recreational River (National Recreation Area) — 5.6 mi, 114° SE · 870 acres
  • Myron Grove (State Conservation Area) — 6.4 mi, 110° E
  • Gayville Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 6.9 mi, 034° NE
  • Riverside Park (Local Park) — 7.7 mi, 301° NW
  • Wiseman Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.0 mi, 115° SE
  • Sertoma Park (Local Park) — 8.1 mi, 309° NW
  • Lewis And Clark Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 8.2 mi, 297° NW
  • Cinema Magic (Cinema) — 9.6 mi, 307° NW
  • Chief White Crane Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 10.9 mi, 284° W
  • Downstream Day Use Area's (State Recreation Area) — 11.0 mi, 285° W
  • Lewis and Clark Lake (Recreation Area) — 12.2 mi, 283° W
  • Cedar County Historical Marker (Monument) — 13.1 mi, 183° S
  • Hartington, Home of Two Nebraska Governors Historical Marker (Monument) — 13.2 mi, 184° S
  • Frost Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 15.3 mi, 105° E
  • Gavins Point (Viewpoint) — 15.8 mi, 282° W
  • Austin-Whittemore House Museum (Museum) — 16.0 mi, 098° E
  • Coyote Theatre (Cinema) — 16.2 mi, 097° E
  • Architrave (Public Artwork) — 16.4 mi, 096° E
  • Oscar Howe Gallery (Gallery) — 16.6 mi, 096° E
  • South Dakota Game Fish and Parks - Wildlife Division (State Park) — 24.2 mi, 300° NW
  • Ponca State Park (State Park) — 27.3 mi, 112° E
  • Union County Historical Museum (Museum) — 29.4 mi, 106° E
  • Dixon County Museum (Museum) — 34.1 mi, 143° SE
  • Broken Kettle Grassland Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 35.0 mi, 103° E
  • Ponca Tribe Museum (Museum) — 39.9 mi, 264° W
  • Calliope Village (Attraction) — 40.9 mi, 070° E
  • Rice Auditorium (Theatre) — 40.9 mi, 163° S
  • The Willow Bowl (Theatre) — 41.1 mi, 163° S
  • Wayne County Museum (Museum) — 41.4 mi, 164° S
  • The Block (Gallery) — 47.8 mi, 116° SE

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About This St. Helena Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Helena, Nebraska. Coordinates: 42.80972, -97.248942. 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 St. Helena includes the ZIP code (68774), telephone area code (402), county seat of Cedar County (Hartington), and school district assignment (Wynot Public 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.