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28010

ZIP 28010 is Barium Springs, North Carolina, in Iredell County; area codes 704 and 980; Eastern time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Iredell
Coordinates
35.7192, -80.8991

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 28677, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 28010 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 28010
  • 🔢 Type 28010 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OIOBZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 28,010 = 2 × 5 × 2801. Its digits add up to 11, a total 714 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 110110101101010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 28009 (Badin, NC, 49 mi away) and 28012 (Belmont, NC, 36 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 28010 becomes 01082 — and that is a real ZIP code: Ware, MA, 648 miles away.
  • 👥 35 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00821, 01028, 01082, 02018, 02081, 02108, …). The farthest-flung twin is 00821 in Christiansted, VI, 1,589 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 71% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 71%.
  • 🎯1,005 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 28010 and you would come out at 35.72°S, 99.10°E — 995 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 35m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 44m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments4This ZIP4
Employees133This ZIP133
Annual payroll$8,202,000This ZIP$8,202,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 28010

ZIPCityDistance
28677 Statesville, NC 2.0 mi
28166 Troutman, NC 3.4 mi
28687 Statesville, NC 4.4 mi
28673 Sherrills Ford, NC 9.0 mi
28609 Catawba, NC 9.3 mi
28682 Terrell, NC 9.8 mi
28699 Scotts, NC 9.8 mi
28117 Mooresville, NC 10.0 mi
28625 Statesville, NC 10.4 mi
27013 Cleveland, NC 11.4 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 28010?

28010 is in Barium Springs, North Carolina, in Iredell County, part of the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metropolitan area. Its published point location is 35.7192, -80.8991.

What county is 28010 in?

28010 lies in Iredell County.

What area code is 28010?

Barium Springs uses area codes 704 and 980, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 28010 in?

28010 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 28010?

The closest are 28677 (2 mi), 28166 (3.4 mi), 28687 (4.4 mi), 28673 (9 mi) and 28609 (9.3 mi).

Is 28010 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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