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38502

ZIP 38502 is in Cookeville, Tennessee, in Putnam County; area code 931; Central time. Cookeville has 5 ZIP codes; the others are 38501, 38503, 38505 and 38506.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Putnam
Metro area
Cookeville, TN
Coordinates
36.1628, -85.5016

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 38501, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 38502 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 38502
  • 🔢 Type 38502 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZOSBE — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 38,502 = 2 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 23 × 31. Its digits add up to 18, a total 2,332 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1001011001100110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 38501 (Cookeville, TN, 5 mi away) and 38503 (Cookeville, TN, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 38502 becomes 20583, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 64 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02358, 02538, 02835, 03258, 03285, 03582, …). The farthest-flung twin is 83520 in Ahsahka, ID, 1,738 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 68% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 55%.
  • 🎯755 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 38502 and you would come out at 36.16°S, 94.50°E — 1,254 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 37m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 42m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments17This ZIP17
Employees163This ZIP163
Annual payroll$7,378,000This ZIP$7,378,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 38502

ZIPCityDistance
38503 Cookeville, TN 0.2 mi
38505 Cookeville, TN 0.8 mi
38506 Cookeville, TN 4.2 mi
38501 Cookeville, TN 4.7 mi
38544 Baxter, TN 9.2 mi
38545 Bloomington Springs, TN 10.0 mi
38580 Rickman, TN 14.0 mi
38583 Sparta, TN 15.0 mi
38574 Monterey, TN 15.2 mi
38582 Silver Point, TN 15.3 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 38502?

38502 is in Cookeville, Tennessee, in Putnam County, part of the Cookeville, TN micropolitan area. Its published point location is 36.1628, -85.5016.

What county is 38502 in?

38502 lies in Putnam County.

What area code is 38502?

Cookeville uses area code 931, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 38502 in?

38502 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 38502?

The closest are 38503 (0.2 mi), 38505 (0.8 mi), 38506 (4.2 mi), 38501 (4.7 mi) and 38544 (9.2 mi).

Is 38502 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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