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42702

ZIP 42702 is in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in Hardin County; area codes 270 and 364; Eastern time. Elizabethtown has 2 ZIP codes; the other is 42701.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/New_York
County
Hardin
Metro area
Elizabethtown, KY
Coordinates
37.6940, -85.8591

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 42701, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 42702 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 42702
  • 🔢 Type 42702 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZOLZh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 42,702 = 2 × 3 × 11 × 647. Its digits add up to 15, a total 1,657 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1010011011001110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 42701 (Elizabethtown, KY, 1 mi away) and 42712 (Big Clifty, KY, 19 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 42702 becomes 20724 — and that is a real ZIP code: Laurel, MD, 500 miles away.
  • 👥 32 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02472, 02724, 02742, 04227, 07422, 20427, …). The farthest-flung twin is 04227 in East Dixfield, ME, 937 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 60% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 54%.
  • 🎯700 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 42702 and you would come out at 37.69°S, 94.14°E — 1,291 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 46m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 33m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments26This ZIP26
Employees1,447This ZIP1,447
Annual payroll$77,471,000This ZIP$77,471,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 42702

ZIPCityDistance
42701 Elizabethtown, KY 1.2 mi
40159 Radcliff, KY 6.8 mi
42740 Glendale, KY 8.9 mi
40160 Radcliff, KY 9.1 mi
40162 Rineyville, KY 10.6 mi
42724 Cecilia, KY 11.6 mi
42748 Hodgenville, KY 12.6 mi
42776 Sonora, KY 12.9 mi
40107 Boston, KY 14.4 mi
42732 Eastview, KY 14.4 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 42702?

42702 is in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in Hardin County, part of the Elizabethtown, KY metropolitan area. Its published point location is 37.6940, -85.8591.

What county is 42702 in?

42702 lies in Hardin County.

What area code is 42702?

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

What time zone is 42702 in?

42702 uses America/New_York.

What ZIP codes are near 42702?

The closest are 42701 (1.2 mi), 40159 (6.8 mi), 42740 (8.9 mi), 40160 (9.1 mi) and 40162 (10.6 mi).

Is 42702 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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