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48887

ZIP 48887 is Smyrna, Michigan, in Ionia County; area code 616; Eastern time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Detroit
County
Ionia
Coordinates
43.0595, -85.2628

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 48809, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 48887 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 48887
  • 🔢 Type 48887 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: LBBBh — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 48,887 = 19 × 31 × 83. Its digits add up to 35, a total 212 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1011111011110111
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 48886 (Six Lakes, MI, 25 mi away) and 48888 (Stanton, MI, 19 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 48887 becomes 78884 — and that is a real ZIP code: Utopia, TX, 1,216 miles away.
  • 👥 2 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (48878, 78884). The farthest-flung twin is 78884 in Utopia, TX, 1,216 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 83% of all ZIP codes, and farther east than 56%.
  • 🎯724 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 48887 and you would come out at 43.06°S, 94.74°E — 1,244 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 22m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 00m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 48887

ZIPCityDistance
48809 Belding, MI 1.1 mi
48865 Orleans, MI 8.3 mi
48838 Greenville, MI 8.5 mi
49331 Lowell, MI 8.8 mi
48881 Saranac, MI 9.2 mi
49317 Cannonsburg, MI 11.0 mi
48846 Ionia, MI 11.5 mi
49341 Rockford, MI 12.3 mi
49301 Ada, MI 12.3 mi
48834 Fenwick, MI 12.6 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 48887?

48887 is in Smyrna, Michigan, in Ionia County, part of the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metropolitan area. Its published point location is 43.0595, -85.2628.

What county is 48887 in?

48887 lies in Ionia County.

What area code is 48887?

Smyrna uses area code 616, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 48887 in?

48887 uses America/Detroit.

What ZIP codes are near 48887?

The closest are 48809 (1.1 mi), 48865 (8.3 mi), 48838 (8.5 mi), 49331 (8.8 mi) and 48881 (9.2 mi).

Is 48887 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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