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ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
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Smallest ZIP Codes in Alaska by Land Area

What this measures. Land area of the Census tabulation area, smallest first. These are almost always dense urban ZIP codes covering a few city blocks. Source: Census Gazetteer, data release 2026-10-12.

# ZIP City County Land area
1 99513 Anchorage Anchorage 0.01 sq mi
2 99530 Anchorage Anchorage 0.11 sq mi
3 99850 Juneau Haines 0.11 sq mi
4 99692 Dutch Harbor Aleutians West 0.33 sq mi
5 99727 Buckland Northwest Arctic 0.41 sq mi
6 99662 Scammon Bay Kusilvak 0.47 sq mi
7 99775 Fairbanks Fairbanks North Star 0.48 sq mi
8 99578 Eek Bethel 0.62 sq mi
9 99784 White Mountain Nome 0.68 sq mi
10 99763 Noorvik Northwest Arctic 0.90 sq mi
11 99771 Shaktoolik Nome 1.05 sq mi
12 99749 Kiana Northwest Arctic 1.08 sq mi
13 99626 Lower Kalskag Bethel 1.24 sq mi
14 99778 Teller Nome 1.49 sq mi
15 99650 Pilot Station Kusilvak 1.61 sq mi
16 99750 Kivalina Northwest Arctic 1.63 sq mi
17 99824 Douglas Juneau 1.76 sq mi
18 99680 Tuntutuliak Bethel 1.87 sq mi
19 99552 Akiak Bethel 2.15 sq mi
20 99783 Wales Nome 2.24 sq mi
21 99785 Brevig Mission Nome 2.29 sq mi
22 99679 Tuluksak Bethel 2.86 sq mi
23 99758 Minto Yukon-Koyukuk 2.90 sq mi
24 99620 Kotlik Kusilvak 2.99 sq mi
25 99745 Hughes Yukon-Koyukuk 3.04 sq mi
26 99517 Anchorage Anchorage 3.24 sq mi
27 99655 Quinhagak Bethel 3.26 sq mi
28 99836 Port Alexander Prince of Wales-Hyder 3.50 sq mi
29 99607 Kalskag Bethel 3.61 sq mi
30 99518 Anchorage Anchorage 3.79 sq mi
31 99585 Marshall Kusilvak 4.06 sq mi
32 99695 Anchorage Lake and Peninsula 4.19 sq mi
33 99927 Point Baker Prince of Wales-Hyder 4.68 sq mi
34 99725 Ester Fairbanks North Star 4.84 sq mi
35 99550 Port Lions Kodiak Island 4.99 sq mi
36 99736 Deering Northwest Arctic 5.01 sq mi
37 99753 Koyuk Nome 5.10 sq mi
38 99721 Anaktuvuk Pass North Slope 5.18 sq mi
39 99634 Napakiak Bethel 5.21 sq mi
40 99561 Chefornak Bethel 5.24 sq mi
41 99754 Koyukuk Yukon-Koyukuk 5.75 sq mi
42 99769 Savoonga Nome 5.87 sq mi
43 99747 Kaktovik North Slope 5.99 sq mi
44 99767 Rampart Yukon-Koyukuk 6.48 sq mi
45 99501 Anchorage Anchorage 6.72 sq mi
46 99641 Nunapitchuk Bethel 6.99 sq mi
47 99551 Akiachak Bethel 7.01 sq mi
48 99630 Mekoryuk Bethel 7.07 sq mi
49 99508 Anchorage Anchorage 7.15 sq mi
50 99677 Tatitlek Chugach 7.25 sq mi

Showing the top 50 of 245 ZIP codes in Alaska that have this figure and meet the threshold above. 99513 ranks 1st at 0.01 sq mi, against 7.25 sq mi in 50th place.

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