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42502

ZIP 42502 is in Somerset, Kentucky, in Pulaski County; area code 606; Eastern time. Somerset has 3 ZIP codes; the others are 42501 and 42503.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Pulaski
Metro area
Somerset, KY
Coordinates
37.0920, -84.6041

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 42501, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 42502 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 42502
  • 🔢 Type 42502 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZOSZh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 42,502 = 2 × 79 × 269. Its digits add up to 13, a total 1,179 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1010011000000110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 42501 (Somerset, KY, 9 mi away) and 42503 (Somerset, KY, 7 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 42502 becomes 20524 — and that is a real ZIP code: Washington, DC, 431 miles away.
  • 👥 34 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02452, 02542, 04225, 04252, 20245, 20254, …). The farthest-flung twin is 04225 in Dryden, ME, 911 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 64% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 58%.
  • 🎯778 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 42502 and you would come out at 37.09°S, 95.40°E — 1,215 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 43m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 37m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments24This ZIP24
Employees626This ZIP626
Annual payroll$17,854,000This ZIP$17,854,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 42502

ZIPCityDistance
42564 West Somerset, KY 1.5 mi
42533 Ferguson, KY 1.5 mi
42503 Somerset, KY 6.5 mi
42553 Science Hill, KY 8.0 mi
42501 Somerset, KY 8.8 mi
42558 Tateville, KY 9.9 mi
42519 Burnside, KY 10.2 mi
42567 Eubank, KY 12.0 mi
42544 Nancy, KY 12.4 mi
42518 Bronston, KY 13.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 42502?

42502 is in Somerset, Kentucky, in Pulaski County, part of the Somerset, KY micropolitan area. Its published point location is 37.0920, -84.6041.

What county is 42502 in?

42502 lies in Pulaski County.

What area code is 42502?

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

What time zone is 42502 in?

42502 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 42502?

The closest are 42564 (1.5 mi), 42533 (1.5 mi), 42503 (6.5 mi), 42553 (8 mi) and 42501 (8.8 mi).

Is 42502 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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