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40620

ZIP 40620 is in Frankfort, Kentucky, in Franklin County; area code 502; Eastern time. Frankfort has 9 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Franklin
Metro area
Frankfort, KY
Coordinates
38.2341, -84.8748

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 40601, 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 40620
  • 🔢 Type 40620 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OZgOh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 40,620 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 5 × 677. Its digits add up to 12, a total 940 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1001111010101100
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 40619 (Frankfort, KY, 0 mi away) and 40621 (Frankfort, KY, 2 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 40620 becomes 02604, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 27 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00624, 02460, 04062, 04260, 06024, 06042, …). The farthest-flung twin is 00624 in Penuelas, PR, 1,772 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 57% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 57%.
  • 🎯743 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 40620 and you would come out at 38.23°S, 95.13°E — 1,247 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 50m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 30m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 40620

ZIPCityDistance
40602 Frankfort, KY 0.0 mi
40603 Frankfort, KY 0.0 mi
40604 Frankfort, KY 0.0 mi
40618 Frankfort, KY 0.0 mi
40619 Frankfort, KY 0.0 mi
40601 Frankfort, KY 0.3 mi
40621 Frankfort, KY 2.3 mi
40622 Frankfort, KY 2.3 mi
40347 Midway, KY 9.5 mi
40003 Bagdad, KY 9.6 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 40620?

40620 is in Frankfort, Kentucky, in Franklin County, part of the Frankfort, KY micropolitan area. Its published point location is 38.2341, -84.8748.

What county is 40620 in?

40620 lies in Franklin County.

What area code is 40620?

Frankfort uses area code 502, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 40620 in?

40620 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 40620?

The closest are 40602 (0 mi), 40603 (0 mi), 40604 (0 mi), 40618 (0 mi) and 40619 (0 mi).

Is 40620 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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