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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/48826

48826

ZIP 48826 is in East Lansing, Michigan, in Ingham County; area code 517; Eastern time. East Lansing has 4 ZIP codes; the others are 48823, 48824 and 48825.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Detroit
County
Ingham
Coordinates
42.7370, -84.4839

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 48823, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 48826 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 48826
  • 🔢 Type 48826 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gZBBh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 48,826 = 2 × 24413. Its digits add up to 28, a total 1,520 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1011111010111010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 48825 (East Lansing, MI, 0 mi away) and 48827 (Eaton Rapids, MI, 18 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 48826 becomes 62884 — and that is a real ZIP code: Sesser, IL, 401 miles away.
  • 👥 17 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (24868, 26884, 28468, 28684, 46288, 48268, …). The farthest-flung twin is 84628 in Eureka, UT, 1,441 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 81% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 58%.
  • 🎯758 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 48826 and you would come out at 42.74°S, 95.52°E — 1,289 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 20m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 02m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments8This ZIP8
Employees46This ZIP46
Annual payroll$2,678,000This ZIP$2,678,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 48826

ZIPCityDistance
48825 East Lansing, MI 0.5 mi
48824 East Lansing, MI 1.2 mi
48912 Lansing, MI 2.0 mi
48823 East Lansing, MI 2.2 mi
48910 Lansing, MI 3.5 mi
48919 Lansing, MI 3.5 mi
48951 Lansing, MI 3.5 mi
48901 Lansing, MI 3.6 mi
48909 Lansing, MI 3.6 mi
48913 Lansing, MI 3.6 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 48826?

48826 is in East Lansing, Michigan, in Ingham County, part of the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metropolitan area. Its published point location is 42.7370, -84.4839.

What county is 48826 in?

48826 lies in Ingham County.

What area code is 48826?

East Lansing uses area code 517, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 48826 in?

48826 uses America/Detroit.

What ZIP codes are near 48826?

The closest are 48825 (0.5 mi), 48824 (1.2 mi), 48912 (2 mi), 48823 (2.2 mi) and 48910 (3.5 mi).

Is 48826 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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