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29861

ZIP 29861 is in North Augusta, South Carolina, in Aiken County; area codes 803 and 839; Eastern time. North Augusta has 3 ZIP codes; the others are 29841 and 29860.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Aiken
Coordinates
33.5018, -81.9651

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 29841, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 29861 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 29861
  • 🔢 Type 29861 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: IgBGZ — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 29,861 = 13 × 2297. Its digits add up to 26, a total 2,038 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 111010010100101
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 29860 (North Augusta, SC, 8 mi away) and 29899 (Mc Cormick, SC, 34 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 29861 becomes 16892, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 33 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (12986, 16829, 16928, 18629, 18962, 21869, …). The farthest-flung twin is 96218 in APO AA, a military post office, 7,253 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 82% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 67%.
  • 🎯1,017 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 29861 and you would come out at 33.50°S, 98.03°E — 1,040 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 23m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 56m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments8This ZIP8
Employees26This ZIP26
Annual payroll$941,000This ZIP$941,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 29861

ZIPCityDistance
29841 North Augusta, SC 2.3 mi
30912 Augusta, GA 2.5 mi
30904 Augusta, GA 3.3 mi
30901 Augusta, GA 4.5 mi
29816 Bath, SC 5.3 mi
29822 Clearwater, SC 5.8 mi
29842 Beech Island, SC 6.8 mi
30907 Augusta, GA 7.1 mi
29834 Langley, SC 7.1 mi
30909 Augusta, GA 7.1 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 29861?

29861 is in North Augusta, South Carolina, in Aiken County, part of the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metropolitan area. Its published point location is 33.5018, -81.9651.

What county is 29861 in?

29861 lies in Aiken County.

What area code is 29861?

North Augusta uses area codes 803 and 839, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 29861 in?

29861 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 29861?

The closest are 29841 (2.3 mi), 30912 (2.5 mi), 30904 (3.3 mi), 30901 (4.5 mi) and 29816 (5.3 mi).

Is 29861 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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