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42070

ZIP 42070 is Milburn, Kentucky, in Carlisle County; area code 270; Central time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Carlisle
Metro area
Paducah, KY-IL
Coordinates
36.7987, -88.8998

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 42021, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 42070 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 42070
  • 🔢 Type 42070 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OLOZh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 42,070 = 2 × 5 × 7 × 601. Its digits add up to 13, a total 1,179 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1010010001010110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 42069 (Melber, KY, 11 mi away) and 42071 (Murray, KY, 36 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 42070 becomes 07024 — and that is a real ZIP code: Fort Lee, NJ, 850 miles away.
  • 👥 30 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00742, 02047, 02740, 04027, 04072, 04270, …). The farthest-flung twin is 00742 in Roosevelt Roads, PR, 1,908 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 65% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 53%.
  • 🎯565 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 42070 and you would come out at 36.80°S, 91.10°E — 1,357 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 41m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 38m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 42070

ZIPCityDistance
42039 Fancy Farm, KY 4.2 mi
42021 Arlington, KY 5.2 mi
42023 Bardwell, KY 7.2 mi
42035 Cunningham, KY 8.3 mi
42031 Clinton, KY 9.3 mi
42061 Lowes, KY 9.4 mi
42069 Melber, KY 11.5 mi
42060 Lovelaceville, KY 12.2 mi
42032 Columbus, KY 12.3 mi
42087 Wickliffe, KY 13.1 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 42070?

42070 is in Milburn, Kentucky, in Carlisle County, part of the Paducah, KY-IL metropolitan area. Its published point location is 36.7987, -88.8998.

What county is 42070 in?

42070 lies in Carlisle County.

What area code is 42070?

Milburn uses area code 270, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 42070 in?

42070 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 42070?

The closest are 42039 (4.2 mi), 42021 (5.2 mi), 42023 (7.2 mi), 42035 (8.3 mi) and 42031 (9.3 mi).

Is 42070 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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