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42128

ZIP 42128 is Drake, Kentucky, in Warren County; area codes 270 and 364; Central time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Warren
Metro area
Bowling Green, KY
Coordinates
36.9834, -86.3940

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 42103, 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 42128
  • 🔢 Type 42128 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: BZIZh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 42,128 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2633. Its digits add up to 17, a total 2,133 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1010010010010000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 42127 (Cave City, KY, 27 mi away) and 42129 (Edmonton, KY, 45 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 42128 becomes 82124, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 33 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (12248, 12428, 12482, 12824, 12842, 14228, …). The farthest-flung twin is 84122 in Salt Lake City, UT, 1,392 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 64% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 53%.
  • 🎯688 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 42128 and you would come out at 36.98°S, 93.61°E — 1,311 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 42m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 37m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 42128

ZIPCityDistance
42103 Bowling Green, KY 4.0 mi
42102 Bowling Green, KY 4.2 mi
42101 Bowling Green, KY 6.4 mi
42104 Bowling Green, KY 8.0 mi
42159 Oakland, KY 8.0 mi
42122 Alvaton, KY 9.0 mi
42274 Rockfield, KY 11.5 mi
42171 Smiths Grove, KY 12.7 mi
42170 Woodburn, KY 13.1 mi
42163 Rocky Hill, KY 15.8 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 42128?

42128 is in Drake, Kentucky, in Warren County, part of the Bowling Green, KY metropolitan area. Its published point location is 36.9834, -86.3940.

What county is 42128 in?

42128 lies in Warren County.

What area code is 42128?

Drake uses area codes 270 and 364, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 42128 in?

42128 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 42128?

The closest are 42103 (4 mi), 42102 (4.2 mi), 42101 (6.4 mi), 42104 (8 mi) and 42159 (8 mi).

Is 42128 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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