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19478

ZIP 19478 is Spring Mount, Pennsylvania, in Montgomery County; Eastern time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Montgomery
Coordinates
40.2759, -75.4618

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 19473, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 19478 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 19478
  • 🔢 Type 19478 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: BLhGI — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 19,478 = 2 × 9739. Its digits add up to 29, a total 1,296 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 100110000010110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 19477 (Spring House, PA, 13 mi away) and 19480 (Uwchland, PA, 17 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 19478 becomes 87491, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 32 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (14879, 14897, 17948, 18947, 18974, 47918, …). The farthest-flung twin is 97481 in Tenmile, OR, 2,455 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 59% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 86%.
  • 🎯1,220 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 19478 and you would come out at 40.28°S, 104.54°E — 853 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 03m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 18m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments6This ZIP6
Employees282This ZIP282
Annual payroll$1,511,000This ZIP$1,511,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 19478

ZIPCityDistance
18958 Salfordville, PA 1.7 mi
19492 Zieglerville, PA 1.7 mi
19473 Schwenksville, PA 1.7 mi
18957 Salford, PA 2.0 mi
18979 Woxall, PA 2.5 mi
18084 Sumneytown, PA 3.6 mi
19438 Harleysville, PA 3.8 mi
19441 Harleysville, PA 3.9 mi
18074 Perkiomenville, PA 4.0 mi
19474 Skippack, PA 4.7 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 19478?

19478 is in Spring Mount, Pennsylvania, in Montgomery County, part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metropolitan area. Its published point location is 40.2759, -75.4618.

What county is 19478 in?

19478 lies in Montgomery County.

What time zone is 19478 in?

19478 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 19478?

The closest are 18958 (1.7 mi), 19492 (1.7 mi), 19473 (1.7 mi), 18957 (2 mi) and 18979 (2.5 mi).

Is 19478 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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