01472

ZIP 01472 is West Groton, Massachusetts, in Middlesex County; area codes 978 and 351; Eastern time.

Type: No street area
Time zone: America/New_York
County: Middlesex
Metro area: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
Coordinates: 42.6043, -71.6273

The Census map gives this ZIP code no delivery area of its own, which usually means it serves post office boxes, a single organization or a post office rather than streets of homes.

This ZIP code has no Census tabulation area of its own. Its point falls inside ZCTA 01450, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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This ZIP code has no Census tabulation area, so there is no boundary to draw — the marker is its published point location.

★ Weird and wonderful facts about 01472

🔢 Type 01472 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZLhIO — not quite a word, sorry.
➕ As a number, 1,472 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 23. Its digits add up to 14, a total 1,416 other ZIP codes share.
💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10111000000
🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 01471 (Groton, MA, 3 mi away) and 01473 (Westminster, MA, 15 mi away).
🔄 Backwards, 01472 becomes 27410 — and that is a real ZIP code: Greensboro, NC, 629 miles away.
👥 66 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (01247, 01742, 02471, 02714, 02741, 04217, …). The farthest-flung twin is 74102 in Tulsa, OK, 1,370 miles away.
🧭 Farther north than 80% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 95%.
🎯1,408 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 01472 and you would come out at 42.60°S, 108.37°E — 842 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
☀Longest day of the year: 15h 19m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 03m.

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Business establishments	6This ZIP6
Employees	147This ZIP147
Annual payroll	$5,198,000This ZIP$5,198,000

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ZIP codes near 01472

ZIP	City	Distance
`01464`	Shirley, MA	2.2 mi
`01470`	Groton, MA	2.7 mi
`01471`	Groton, MA	2.7 mi
`01450`	Groton, MA	3.2 mi
`01432`	Ayer, MA	3.7 mi
`01463`	Pepperell, MA	4.7 mi
`01462`	Lunenburg, MA	5.0 mi
`01434`	Devens, MA	5.0 mi
`01469`	Townsend, MA	5.4 mi
`01451`	Harvard, MA	7.7 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 01472?

01472 is in West Groton, Massachusetts, in Middlesex County, part of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Its published point location is 42.6043, -71.6273.

What county is 01472 in?

01472 lies in Middlesex County.

What area code is 01472?

West Groton uses area codes 978 and 351, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 01472 in?

01472 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 01472?

The closest are 01464 (2.2 mi), 01470 (2.7 mi), 01471 (2.7 mi), 01450 (3.2 mi) and 01432 (3.7 mi).

Is 01472 a PO Box ZIP code?

Possibly. The Census map gives this ZIP code no delivery area of its own, which usually means it serves post office boxes, a single organization or a post office rather than streets of homes.

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