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40578

ZIP 40578 is in Lexington, Kentucky, in Fayette County; area code 859; Eastern time. Lexington has 39 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Fayette
Coordinates
38.0283, -84.4715

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 40502, 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 40578
  • 🔢 Type 40578 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: BLSOh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 40,578 = 2 × 3 × 6763. Its digits add up to 24, a total 2,425 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1001111010000010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 40577 (Lexington, KY, 0 mi away) and 40579 (Lexington, KY, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 40578 becomes 87504 — and that is a real ZIP code: Santa Fe, NM, 1,195 miles away.
  • 👥 57 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (04578, 04758, 04785, 05478, 05487, 05748, …). The farthest-flung twin is 85074 in Phoenix, AZ, 1,574 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 58% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 58%.
  • 🎯768 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 40578 and you would come out at 38.03°S, 95.53°E — 1,222 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 48m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 31m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 40578

ZIPCityDistance
40512 Lexington, KY 0.0 mi
40522 Lexington, KY 0.0 mi
40523 Lexington, KY 0.0 mi
40524 Lexington, KY 0.0 mi
40533 Lexington, KY 0.0 mi
40544 Lexington, KY 0.0 mi
40546 Lexington, KY 0.0 mi
40550 Lexington, KY 0.0 mi
40555 Lexington, KY 0.0 mi
40574 Lexington, KY 0.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 40578?

40578 is in Lexington, Kentucky, in Fayette County, part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY metropolitan area. Its published point location is 38.0283, -84.4715.

What county is 40578 in?

40578 lies in Fayette County.

What area code is 40578?

Lexington uses area code 859, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 40578 in?

40578 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 40578?

The closest are 40512 (0 mi), 40522 (0 mi), 40523 (0 mi), 40524 (0 mi) and 40533 (0 mi).

Is 40578 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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