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27867

ZIP 27867 is Potecasi, North Carolina, in Northampton County; area code 252; Eastern time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Northampton
Metro area
Roanoke Rapids, NC
Coordinates
36.3632, -77.2391

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 27897, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 27867 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 27867
  • 🔢 Type 27867 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: LgBLZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 27,867 = 3 × 7 × 1327. Its digits add up to 30, a total 1,024 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 110110011011011
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 27866 (Pleasant Hill, NC, 19 mi away) and 27868 (Red Oak, NC, 43 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 27867 becomes 76872 — and that is a real ZIP code: Rochelle, TX, 1,301 miles away.
  • 👥 16 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (27876, 28677, 28776, 62877, 67278, 68727, …). The farthest-flung twin is 76872 in Rochelle, TX, 1,301 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 67% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 80%.
  • 🎯1,182 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 27867 and you would come out at 36.36°S, 102.76°E — 808 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 38m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 41m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments5This ZIP5
Employees44This ZIP44
Annual payroll$1,081,000This ZIP$1,081,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 27867

ZIPCityDistance
27897 Woodland, NC 3.1 mi
27820 Conway, NC 4.0 mi
27869 Rich Square, NC 7.8 mi
27862 Pendleton, NC 9.2 mi
27855 Murfreesboro, NC 10.1 mi
27877 Severn, NC 11.1 mi
27853 Margarettsville, NC 11.2 mi
27845 Jackson, NC 11.2 mi
27872 Roxobel, NC 11.2 mi
27876 Seaboard, NC 12.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 27867?

27867 is in Potecasi, North Carolina, in Northampton County, part of the Roanoke Rapids, NC micropolitan area. Its published point location is 36.3632, -77.2391.

What county is 27867 in?

27867 lies in Northampton County.

What area code is 27867?

Potecasi uses area code 252, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 27867 in?

27867 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 27867?

The closest are 27897 (3.1 mi), 27820 (4 mi), 27869 (7.8 mi), 27862 (9.2 mi) and 27855 (10.1 mi).

Is 27867 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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