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56397

ZIP 56397 is in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, in Stearns County; area code 320; Central time. Saint Cloud has 11 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Stearns
Metro area
St. Cloud, MN
Coordinates
45.5608, -94.1625

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 56303, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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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 56397
  • 🔢 Type 56397 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: LGEgS — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 56,397 = 3 × 11 × 1709. Its digits add up to 30, a total 1,024 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1101110001001101
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 56396 (Saint Cloud, MN, 0 mi away) and 56398 (Saint Cloud, MN, 0 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 56397 becomes 79365, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 45 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (35769, 35967, 35976, 36579, 36759, 37659, …). The farthest-flung twin is 96375 in FPO AA, a military post office, 6,820 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 93% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 66%.
  • 🎯455 miles northeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 56397 and you would come out at 45.56°S, 85.84°E — 773 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 42m of daylight. Shortest: 8h 42m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 56397

ZIPCityDistance
56302 Saint Cloud, MN 0.0 mi
56372 Saint Cloud, MN 0.0 mi
56393 Saint Cloud, MN 0.0 mi
56395 Saint Cloud, MN 0.0 mi
56396 Saint Cloud, MN 0.0 mi
56398 Saint Cloud, MN 0.0 mi
56399 Saint Cloud, MN 0.0 mi
56303 Saint Cloud, MN 2.7 mi
56388 Waite Park, MN 3.0 mi
56387 Waite Park, MN 4.8 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 56397?

56397 is in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, in Stearns County, part of the St. Cloud, MN metropolitan area. Its published point location is 45.5608, -94.1625.

What county is 56397 in?

56397 lies in Stearns County.

What area code is 56397?

Saint Cloud uses area code 320, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 56397 in?

56397 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 56397?

The closest are 56302 (0 mi), 56372 (0 mi), 56393 (0 mi), 56395 (0 mi) and 56396 (0 mi).

Is 56397 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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