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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/17256

17256

ZIP 17256 is Shady Grove, Pennsylvania, in Franklin County; area codes 717 and 223; Eastern time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Franklin
Metro area
Chambersburg, PA
Coordinates
39.7834, -77.6749

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 17225, 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 17256
  • 🔢 Type 17256 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gSZLI — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 17,256 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 719. Its digits add up to 21, a total 2,594 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 100001101101000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 17255 (Shade Gap, PA, 27 mi away) and 17257 (Shippensburg, PA, 21 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 17256 becomes 65271, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 56 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (12567, 12765, 15267, 15276, 15627, 15672, …). The farthest-flung twin is 57621 in Bullhead, SD, 1,252 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 54% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 79%.
  • 🎯1,107 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 17256 and you would come out at 39.78°S, 102.33°E — 929 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 59m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 21m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments5This ZIP5
Employees1,022This ZIP1,022
Annual payroll$83,746,000This ZIP$83,746,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 17256

ZIPCityDistance
17272 Zullinger, PA 2.7 mi
17225 Greencastle, PA 4.7 mi
17263 State Line, PA 4.7 mi
17247 Quincy, PA 5.2 mi
17235 Marion, PA 5.2 mi
17268 Waynesboro, PA 5.3 mi
21767 Maugansville, MD 7.0 mi
21742 Hagerstown, MD 7.4 mi
17237 Mont Alto, PA 8.0 mi
17250 Rouzerville, PA 8.7 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 17256?

17256 is in Shady Grove, Pennsylvania, in Franklin County, part of the Chambersburg, PA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 39.7834, -77.6749.

What county is 17256 in?

17256 lies in Franklin County.

What area code is 17256?

Shady Grove uses area codes 717 and 223, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 17256 in?

17256 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 17256?

The closest are 17272 (2.7 mi), 17225 (4.7 mi), 17263 (4.7 mi), 17247 (5.2 mi) and 17235 (5.2 mi).

Is 17256 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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