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28502

ZIP 28502 is in Kinston, North Carolina, in Lenoir County; area code 252; Eastern time. Kinston has 4 ZIP codes; the others are 28501, 28503 and 28504.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Lenoir
Metro area
Kinston, NC
Coordinates
35.2627, -77.5816

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 28501, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 28502 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 28502
  • 🔢 Type 28502 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZOSBZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 28,502 = 2 × 14251. Its digits add up to 17, a total 2,133 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 110111101010110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 28501 (Kinston, NC, 3 mi away) and 28503 (Kinston, NC, 4 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 28502 becomes 20582, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 33 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02825, 02852, 05822, 08225, 08252, 20528, …). The farthest-flung twin is 85022 in Phoenix, AZ, 1,957 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 73% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 80%.
  • 🎯1,190 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 28502 and you would come out at 35.26°S, 102.42°E — 806 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 32m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 46m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments22This ZIP22
Employees637This ZIP637
Annual payroll$38,729,000This ZIP$38,729,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 28502

ZIPCityDistance
28501 Kinston, NC 3.5 mi
28504 Kinston, NC 3.9 mi
28503 Kinston, NC 4.0 mi
28526 Dover, NC 9.8 mi
28538 Hookerton, NC 10.7 mi
28525 Deep Run, NC 10.8 mi
28551 La Grange, NC 11.9 mi
28530 Grifton, NC 12.1 mi
28580 Snow Hill, NC 14.3 mi
28554 Maury, NC 14.7 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 28502?

28502 is in Kinston, North Carolina, in Lenoir County, part of the Kinston, NC micropolitan area. Its published point location is 35.2627, -77.5816.

What county is 28502 in?

28502 lies in Lenoir County.

What area code is 28502?

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

What time zone is 28502 in?

28502 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 28502?

The closest are 28501 (3.5 mi), 28504 (3.9 mi), 28503 (4 mi), 28526 (9.8 mi) and 28538 (10.7 mi).

Is 28502 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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