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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/04962

04962

ZIP 04962 is North Vassalboro, Maine, in Kennebec County; area code 207; Eastern time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Kennebec
Coordinates
44.4862, -69.6225

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 04989, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 04962 is

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 04962
  • 🔢 Type 04962 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZgGhO — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 4,962 = 2 × 3 × 827. Its digits add up to 21, a total 2,594 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1001101100010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 04961 (New Portland, ME, 53 mi away) and 04963 (Oakland, ME, 15 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 04962 becomes 26940, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 50 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02649, 04629, 04926, 06249, 06492, 09264, …). The farthest-flung twin is 96204 in APO AA, a military post office, 6,676 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 89% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 97%.
  • 🎯1,509 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 04962 and you would come out at 44.49°S, 110.38°E — 915 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 33m of daylight. Shortest: 8h 50m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments6This ZIP6
Employees12This ZIP12
Annual payroll$490,000This ZIP$490,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 04962

ZIPCityDistance
04935 East Vassalboro, ME 2.8 mi
04989 Vassalboro, ME 4.1 mi
04901 Waterville, ME 4.5 mi
04926 China Village, ME 5.3 mi
04903 Waterville, ME 6.2 mi
04358 South China, ME 6.6 mi
04332 Augusta, ME 8.1 mi
04910 Albion, ME 8.9 mi
04975 Shawmut, ME 9.8 mi
04917 Belgrade, ME 10.7 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 04962?

04962 is in North Vassalboro, Maine, in Kennebec County, part of the Augusta-Waterville, ME micropolitan area. Its published point location is 44.4862, -69.6225.

What county is 04962 in?

04962 lies in Kennebec County.

What area code is 04962?

North Vassalboro uses area code 207, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 04962 in?

04962 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 04962?

The closest are 04935 (2.8 mi), 04989 (4.1 mi), 04901 (4.5 mi), 04926 (5.3 mi) and 04903 (6.2 mi).

Is 04962 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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