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55596

ZIP 55596 is in Loretto, Minnesota, in Hennepin County; Central time. Loretto has 6 ZIP codes; the others are 55357, 55595, 55597, 55598 and 55599.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Hennepin
Coordinates
45.0159, -93.4719

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 55447, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 55596 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 55596
  • 🔢 Type 55596 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gGSSS — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 55,596 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 41 × 113. Its digits add up to 30, a total 1,024 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1101100100101100
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 55595 (Loretto, MN, 0 mi away) and 55597 (Loretto, MN, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 55596 becomes 69555, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 7 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (55569, 55956, 55965, 65559, 95556, 95565, …). The farthest-flung twin is 95565 in Scotia, CA, 1,572 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 91% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 64%.
  • 🎯443 miles northeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 55596 and you would come out at 45.02°S, 86.53°E — 820 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 37m of daylight. Shortest: 8h 46m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 55596

ZIPCityDistance
55392 Navarre, MN 0.0 mi
55570 Maple Plain, MN 0.0 mi
55571 Maple Plain, MN 0.0 mi
55573 Young America, MN 0.0 mi
55574 Maple Plain, MN 0.0 mi
55576 Maple Plain, MN 0.0 mi
55577 Maple Plain, MN 0.0 mi
55578 Maple Plain, MN 0.0 mi
55579 Maple Plain, MN 0.0 mi
55593 Maple Plain, MN 0.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 55596?

55596 is in Loretto, Minnesota, in Hennepin County, part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metropolitan area. Its published point location is 45.0159, -93.4719.

What county is 55596 in?

55596 lies in Hennepin County.

What time zone is 55596 in?

55596 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 55596?

The closest are 55392 (0 mi), 55570 (0 mi), 55571 (0 mi), 55573 (0 mi) and 55574 (0 mi).

Is 55596 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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