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18251

ZIP 18251 is Sybertsville, Pennsylvania, in Luzerne County; area codes 570 and 272; Eastern time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Luzerne
Coordinates
41.0015, -76.0763

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 18249, 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 18251
  • 🔢 Type 18251 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ISZBI — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ 18251 is a prime number. It cannot be divided by anything except 1 and itself. Its digits add up to 17, a total 2,133 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 100011101001011
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 18250 (Summit Hill, PA, 17 mi away) and 18252 (Tamaqua, PA, 16 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 18251 becomes 15281 — and that is a real ZIP code: Pittsburgh, PA, 210 miles away.
  • 👥 27 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (11582, 12158, 12185, 12518, 12581, 12815, …). The farthest-flung twin is 85121 in Bapchule, AZ, 2,033 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 67% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 85%.
  • 🎯1,183 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 18251 and you would come out at 41.00°S, 103.92°E — 910 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 08m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 13m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments8This ZIP8
Employees89This ZIP89
Annual payroll$4,580,000This ZIP$4,580,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 18251

ZIPCityDistance
18219 Conyngham, PA 1.2 mi
18249 Sugarloaf, PA 2.3 mi
18202 Hazleton, PA 3.6 mi
18247 Saint Johns, PA 4.1 mi
18222 Drums, PA 4.5 mi
18239 Milnesville, PA 5.0 mi
18256 Weston, PA 5.6 mi
18225 Harleigh, PA 5.7 mi
18234 Lattimer Mines, PA 5.9 mi
18241 Nuremberg, PA 6.1 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 18251?

18251 is in Sybertsville, Pennsylvania, in Luzerne County, part of the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 41.0015, -76.0763.

What county is 18251 in?

18251 lies in Luzerne County.

What area code is 18251?

Sybertsville uses area codes 570 and 272, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 18251 in?

18251 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 18251?

The closest are 18219 (1.2 mi), 18249 (2.3 mi), 18202 (3.6 mi), 18247 (4.1 mi) and 18222 (4.5 mi).

Is 18251 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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