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38083

ZIP 38083 is in Millington, Tennessee, in Shelby County; area code 901; Central time. Millington has 4 ZIP codes; the others are 38053, 38054 and 38055.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Shelby
Metro area
Memphis, TN-MS-AR
Coordinates
35.2017, -89.9715

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 38127, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 38083 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 38083
  • 🔢 Type 38083 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: EBOBE — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ⇆38083 reads the same backwards. It is one of only 412 palindromic ZIP codes.
  • ➕ 38083 is a prime number. It cannot be divided by anything except 1 and itself. Its digits add up to 22, a total 2,607 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1001010011000011
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 38080 (Ridgely, TN, 74 mi away) and 38088 (Cordova, TN, 11 mi away).
  • 👥 13 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (03838, 03883, 08833, 30388, 33880, 38308, …). The farthest-flung twin is 83803 in Bayview, ID, 1,614 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 73% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 56%.
  • 🎯569 miles southeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 38083 and you would come out at 35.20°S, 90.03°E — 1,399 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 32m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 47m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments6This ZIP6
Employees22This ZIP22
Annual payroll$1,065,000This ZIP$1,065,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 38083

ZIPCityDistance
38124 Memphis, TN 0.0 mi
38130 Memphis, TN 0.0 mi
38136 Memphis, TN 0.0 mi
38137 Memphis, TN 0.0 mi
38145 Memphis, TN 0.0 mi
38151 Memphis, TN 0.0 mi
38157 Memphis, TN 0.0 mi
38161 Memphis, TN 0.0 mi
38163 Memphis, TN 0.0 mi
38166 Memphis, TN 0.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 38083?

38083 is in Millington, Tennessee, in Shelby County, part of the Memphis, TN-MS-AR metropolitan area. Its published point location is 35.2017, -89.9715.

What county is 38083 in?

38083 lies in Shelby County.

What area code is 38083?

Millington uses area code 901, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 38083 in?

38083 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 38083?

The closest are 38124 (0 mi), 38130 (0 mi), 38136 (0 mi), 38137 (0 mi) and 38145 (0 mi).

Is 38083 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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