St. Helena Nebraska Map

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.

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).

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.