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40940

ZIP 40940 is Frakes, Kentucky, mostly in Bell County; area code 606; Eastern time.

Type
Standard
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Bell +1 more
Metro area
Middlesborough, KY
Population
367
Coordinates
36.6025, -83.9390
☼ Live from 40940 — Frakes, KY

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Where 40940 is

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★ Weird and wonderful facts about 40940
  • 🔢 Type 40940 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OhGOh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 40,940 = 2 × 2 × 5 × 23 × 89. Its digits add up to 17, a total 2,133 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1001111111101100
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 40939 (Fourmile, KY, 19 mi away) and 40941 (Garrard, KY, 38 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 40940 becomes 04904, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 13 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (04049, 04094, 04490, 04940, 09044, 40049, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09044 in APO AE, a military post office, 4,560 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 66% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 60%.
  • 🎯824 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 40940 and you would come out at 36.60°S, 96.06°E — 1,173 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 40m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 39m.
  • 📏 At 30.2 square miles of land, 40940 is bigger than 46% of ZIP codes — room for about 23 Central Parks.
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People and housing

Population367This ZIP367
Households166This ZIP166
Housing units392This ZIP392
Median age40.2This ZIP40.2Kentucky39.1US 38.9
Bachelor's degree or higher0.0%
Population density12.1 / sq miThis ZIP12.1 / sq mi

Business and tax activity

Business establishments4This ZIP4
Employees41This ZIP41
Annual payroll$934,000This ZIP$934,000
Tax returns filed170This ZIP170
Total adjusted gross income$6,432,000This ZIP$6,432,000

Land area

Land area30.24 sq miThis ZIP30.24 sq mi
Water area0.03 sq miThis ZIP0.03 sq mi

Counties 40940 spans

A ZIP code is a mail route and ignores county lines. Shares are by overlapping land area.

CountyShare of this ZIP
Bell County 54.1%
Whitley County 45.9%

ZIP codes near 40940

ZIPCityDistance
37730 Eagan, TN 3.0 mi
37715 Clairfield, TN 3.6 mi
40763 Siler, KY 6.0 mi
37729 Duff, TN 8.0 mi
37851 Pruden, TN 8.5 mi
37762 Jellico, TN 10.2 mi
37870 Speedwell, TN 11.3 mi
40965 Middlesboro, KY 11.6 mi
40995 Trosper, KY 12.2 mi
40730 Emlyn, KY 13.2 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 40940?

40940 is in Frakes, Kentucky, in Bell County, part of the Middlesborough, KY micropolitan area. Its published point location is 36.6025, -83.9390.

What county is 40940 in?

40940 spans 2 counties: Bell County and Whitley County. Most of it falls in Bell County, measured by overlapping land area — the county holding the most land in a ZIP code is not always the one holding the most residents.

What area code is 40940?

Frakes uses area code 606, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 40940 in?

40940 uses America/New_York.

How many people live in 40940?

About 367 people live in ZIP code 40940, in 166 households, at 12.1 people per square mile. These are American Community Survey 5-year estimates for the ZIP Code Tabulation Area, not a headcount.

What ZIP codes are near 40940?

The closest are 37730 (3 mi), 37715 (3.6 mi), 40763 (6 mi), 37729 (8 mi) and 37851 (8.5 mi).

Is 40940 a PO Box ZIP code?

40940 is a standard ZIP code. A normal ZIP code with street delivery.

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