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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/36802

36802

ZIP 36802 is in Opelika, Alabama, in Lee County; area code 334; Central time. Opelika has 4 ZIP codes; the others are 36801, 36803 and 36804.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Lee
Metro area
Auburn-Opelika, AL
Coordinates
32.5782, -85.3490

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 36804, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 36802 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 36802
  • 🔢 Type 36802 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZOBgE — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 36,802 = 2 × 18401. Its digits add up to 19, a total 2,454 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1000111111000010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 36801 (Opelika, AL, 9 mi away) and 36803 (Opelika, AL, 5 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 36802 becomes 20863, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 57 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02368, 02638, 02836, 02863, 03268, 03826, …). The farthest-flung twin is 83602 in Banks, ID, 1,835 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 86% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 56%.
  • 🎯890 miles southeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 36802 and you would come out at 32.58°S, 94.65°E — 1,238 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 18m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 00m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments4This ZIP4
Employees32This ZIP32
Annual payroll$2,342,000This ZIP$2,342,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 36802

ZIPCityDistance
36872 Valley, AL 0.0 mi
36804 Opelika, AL 3.1 mi
36803 Opelika, AL 4.9 mi
36831 Auburn, AL 8.0 mi
36849 Auburn University, AL 8.3 mi
36874 Salem, AL 8.8 mi
36801 Opelika, AL 8.8 mi
36830 Auburn, AL 8.9 mi
36852 Cusseta, AL 13.0 mi
36832 Auburn, AL 13.8 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 36802?

36802 is in Opelika, Alabama, in Lee County, part of the Auburn-Opelika, AL metropolitan area. Its published point location is 32.5782, -85.3490.

What county is 36802 in?

36802 lies in Lee County.

What area code is 36802?

Opelika uses area code 334, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 36802 in?

36802 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 36802?

The closest are 36872 (0 mi), 36804 (3.1 mi), 36803 (4.9 mi), 36831 (8 mi) and 36849 (8.3 mi).

Is 36802 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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