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35809

ZIP 35809 is in Huntsville, Alabama, in Madison County; area codes 256 and 938; Central time. Huntsville has 24 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Madison
Metro area
Huntsville, AL
Coordinates
34.7340, -86.5229

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 35801, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 35809 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 35809
  • 🔢 Type 35809 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GOBSE — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ 35809 is a prime number. It cannot be divided by anything except 1 and itself. Its digits add up to 25, a total 2,242 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1000101111100001
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 35808 (Huntsville, AL, 10 mi away) and 35810 (Huntsville, AL, 7 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 35809 becomes 90853 — and that is a real ZIP code: Long Beach, CA, 1,808 miles away.
  • 👥 43 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (03589, 03598, 03859, 05839, 09358, 09835, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09853 in APO AE, a military post office, 7,315 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 75% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 52%.
  • 🎯750 miles southeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 35809 and you would come out at 34.73°S, 93.48°E — 1,303 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 29m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 49m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments4This ZIP4
Employees28This ZIP28
Annual payroll$1,008,000This ZIP$1,008,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 35809

ZIPCityDistance
35807 Huntsville, AL 0.0 mi
35812 Huntsville, AL 0.0 mi
35813 Huntsville, AL 0.0 mi
35814 Huntsville, AL 0.0 mi
35815 Huntsville, AL 0.0 mi
35894 Huntsville, AL 0.0 mi
35897 Huntsville, AL 0.0 mi
35898 Huntsville, AL 0.0 mi
35801 Huntsville, AL 2.5 mi
35741 Brownsboro, AL 3.4 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 35809?

35809 is in Huntsville, Alabama, in Madison County, part of the Huntsville, AL metropolitan area. Its published point location is 34.7340, -86.5229.

What county is 35809 in?

35809 lies in Madison County.

What area code is 35809?

Huntsville uses area codes 256 and 938, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 35809 in?

35809 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 35809?

The closest are 35807 (0 mi), 35812 (0 mi), 35813 (0 mi), 35814 (0 mi) and 35815 (0 mi).

Is 35809 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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