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42720

ZIP 42720 is Cane Valley, Kentucky, in Adair County; area code 270; Central time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Adair
Metro area
none
Coordinates
37.1803, -85.3197

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 42728, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 42720 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 42720
  • 🔢 Type 42720 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OZLZh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 42,720 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 5 × 89. Its digits add up to 15, a total 1,657 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1010011011100000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 42719 (Campbellsville, KY, 11 mi away) and 42721 (Caneyville, KY, 67 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 42720 becomes 02724 — and that is a real ZIP code: Fall River, MA, 815 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, 934 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 63% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 56%.
  • 🎯739 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 42720 and you would come out at 37.18°S, 94.68°E — 1,255 miles from Perth, Australia, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 43m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 36m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 42720

ZIPCityDistance
42728 Columbia, KY 4.7 mi
42753 Knifley, KY 9.6 mi
42719 Campbellsville, KY 10.9 mi
42742 Gradyville, KY 11.1 mi
42743 Greensburg, KY 12.2 mi
42733 Elk Horn, KY 13.5 mi
42741 Glens Fork, KY 14.6 mi
42718 Campbellsville, KY 14.9 mi
42758 Mannsville, KY 14.9 mi
42528 Dunnville, KY 16.3 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 42720?

42720 is in Cane Valley, Kentucky, in Adair County. Its published point location is 37.1803, -85.3197.

What county is 42720 in?

42720 lies in Adair County.

What area code is 42720?

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

What time zone is 42720 in?

42720 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 42720?

The closest are 42728 (4.7 mi), 42753 (9.6 mi), 42719 (10.9 mi), 42742 (11.1 mi) and 42743 (12.2 mi).

Is 42720 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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