Wallace Nebraska Map

About Wallace, Nebraska

Wallace is a locality in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 318. The population density is 172.7 people per km². Wallace is located at 40.8383°N, 101.1649°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Wallace is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 69169.

Wallace occupies a quiet expanse of high plains where the horizon defines the limits of the world, stretching out in a vast, unadorned line that catches the heavy gold of the late afternoon sun. It lies 28.7 miles southwest of North Platte, NE (from North Platte, NE: bearing 227°T), and is situated 33.5 miles northeast of Imperial. The terrain here is marked by the subtle, persistent push of the prairie, a landscape of wide-open sky and resilient grasses that seem to hold the wind in their stems. Only a mile away, the quiet course of Red Willow Creek cuts through the earth, a thin, vital ribbon of water that provides a necessary reprieve in a region where the land is otherwise dry and spare. Farther off, the stillness of Harms Reservoir waits eight miles to the north, its surface often mirroring the deep, changing blues of the Nebraska vault above, while the broader reaches of the Sutherland Reservoir State Recreation Area remain seventeen miles distant as a place for the local rhythm to slow down even further.

Wallace remains tethered to the slow, deliberate work of the soil, grounded in the cattle country tradition that has shaped this region for generations. The economy hums with the quiet industry of agriculture, where the lives of those who live here are organized around the seasonal demands of the herd and the harvest. There is a particular clarity to the air in Wallace, a crispness that arrives with the change of season and reminds the observer that the history of this place is written in the labor of keeping land productive against the elements. Life here moves with a steady, predictable gravity, rooted in the shared knowledge of the plains and a commitment to the enduring, quiet persistence of a life lived out under an immense and watchful sky.

About This Wallace Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wallace, Nebraska. Coordinates: 40.838336, -101.164878. 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 Wallace includes the ZIP code (69169), telephone area code (308), county seat of Lincoln County (North Platte), and school district assignment (Wallace Public School District 65 R).

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.