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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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Largest ZIP Codes in Alabama by Land Area

What this measures. Land area of the Census tabulation area, in square miles. Water is excluded. Source: Census Gazetteer, data release 2026-10-12.

# ZIP City County Land area
1 36426 Brewton Escambia 497.97 sq mi
2 36401 Evergreen Conecuh 441.15 sq mi
3 36545 Jackson Clarke 394.46 sq mi
4 36756 Marion Perry 375.46 sq mi
5 36037 Greenville Butler 374.87 sq mi
6 36507 Bay Minette Baldwin 343.14 sq mi
7 35160 Talladega Talladega 332.66 sq mi
8 36502 Atmore Escambia 330.81 sq mi
9 36089 Union Springs Bullock 328.71 sq mi
10 35555 Fayette Fayette 326.84 sq mi
11 36053 Midway Barbour 320.01 sq mi
12 36272 Piedmont Cherokee 317.93 sq mi
13 36726 Camden Wilcox 290.60 sq mi
14 36027 Eufaula Barbour 290.44 sq mi
15 35462 Eutaw Greene 284.79 sq mi
16 35565 Haleyville Winston 279.75 sq mi
17 36701 Selma Dallas 277.30 sq mi
18 35470 Livingston Sumter 273.71 sq mi
19 35466 Gordo Pickens 269.59 sq mi
20 36784 Thomasville Clarke 268.85 sq mi
21 36420 Andalusia Covington 267.89 sq mi
22 35442 Aliceville Pickens 267.37 sq mi
23 36067 Prattville Autauga 244.34 sq mi
24 36761 Minter Dallas 242.54 sq mi
25 36264 Heflin Cleburne 238.16 sq mi
26 36558 Millry Washington 236.07 sq mi
27 35546 Berry Tuscaloosa 235.10 sq mi
28 35570 Hamilton Marion 233.56 sq mi
29 36522 Citronelle Mobile 233.09 sq mi
30 36016 Clayton Barbour 232.94 sq mi
31 36323 Elba Coffee 232.70 sq mi
32 36904 Butler Choctaw 230.87 sq mi
33 36567 Robertsdale Baldwin 228.70 sq mi
34 36862 Lafayette Chambers 226.46 sq mi
35 36744 Greensboro Hale 223.81 sq mi
36 36083 Tuskegee Macon 223.15 sq mi
37 35010 Alexander City Tallapoosa 222.71 sq mi
38 35443 Boligee Greene 221.48 sq mi
39 36768 Pine Apple Wilcox 221.45 sq mi
40 35136 Rockford Coosa 217.48 sq mi
41 35616 Cherokee Colbert 216.03 sq mi
42 36421 Andalusia Covington 213.38 sq mi
43 35650 Moulton Lawrence 212.37 sq mi
44 36759 Marion Junction Dallas 212.06 sq mi
45 36033 Georgiana Butler 210.89 sq mi
46 36081 Troy Pike 209.51 sq mi
47 36310 Abbeville Henry 209.40 sq mi
48 35633 Florence Lauderdale 208.34 sq mi
49 35474 Moundville Hale 207.32 sq mi
50 36442 Florala Covington 206.39 sq mi

Showing the top 50 of 656 ZIP codes in Alabama that have this figure and meet the threshold above. 36426 ranks 1st at 497.97 sq mi, against 206.39 sq mi in 50th place.

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