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36275

ZIP 36275 is Spring Garden, Alabama, in Cherokee County; area codes 256 and 938; Central time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Cherokee
Metro area
none
Coordinates
33.9778, -85.5521

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 36272, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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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 36275
  • 🔢 Type 36275 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: SLZgE — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 36,275 = 5 × 5 × 1451. Its digits add up to 23, a total 2,533 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1000110110110011
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 36274 (Roanoke, AL, 56 mi away) and 36276 (Wadley, AL, 59 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 36275 becomes 57263 — and that is a real ZIP code: South Shore, SD, 981 miles away.
  • 👥 58 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (25637, 26537, 26753, 27356, 27536, 27563, …). The farthest-flung twin is 56732 in Karlstad, MN, 1,155 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 79% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 55%.
  • 🎯824 miles southeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 36275 and you would come out at 33.98°S, 94.45°E — 1,247 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 25m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 53m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 36275

ZIPCityDistance
36272 Piedmont, AL 3.5 mi
30138 Esom Hill, GA 9.6 mi
35960 Centre, AL 10.5 mi
36262 Fruithurst, AL 13.6 mi
30125 Cedartown, GA 15.8 mi
30124 Cave Spring, GA 16.0 mi
36265 Jacksonville, AL 16.1 mi
35903 Gadsden, AL 17.1 mi
35983 Leesburg, AL 18.2 mi
35959 Cedar Bluff, AL 18.7 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 36275?

36275 is in Spring Garden, Alabama, in Cherokee County. Its published point location is 33.9778, -85.5521.

What county is 36275 in?

36275 lies in Cherokee County.

What area code is 36275?

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

What time zone is 36275 in?

36275 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 36275?

The closest are 36272 (3.5 mi), 30138 (9.6 mi), 35960 (10.5 mi), 36262 (13.6 mi) and 30125 (15.8 mi).

Is 36275 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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