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60019

ZIP 60019 is in Des Plaines, Illinois, in Cook County; area codes 224 and 847; Central time. Des Plaines has 4 ZIP codes; the others are 60016, 60017 and 60018.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Cook
Coordinates
42.0243, -87.9071

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 60018, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 60019 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 60019
  • 🔢 Type 60019 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: GIOOg — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 60,019 = 47 × 1277. Its digits add up to 16, a total 1,922 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1110101001110011
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 60018 (Des Plaines, IL, 3 mi away) and 60020 (Fox Lake, IL, 29 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 60019 becomes 91006 — and that is a real ZIP code: Arcadia, CA, 1,716 miles away.
  • 👥 32 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00916, 00961, 01069, 01096, 01609, 01906, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09601 in APO AE, a military post office, 4,640 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 75% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 50%.
  • 🎯577 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 60019 and you would come out at 42.02°S, 92.09°E — 1,165 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 15m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 07m.
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ZIP codes near 60019

ZIPCityDistance
60017 Des Plaines, IL 0.7 mi
60016 Des Plaines, IL 2.1 mi
60056 Mount Prospect, IL 3.2 mi
60018 Des Plaines, IL 3.2 mi
60068 Park Ridge, IL 3.3 mi
60009 Elk Grove Village, IL 3.5 mi
60106 Bensenville, IL 4.6 mi
60007 Elk Grove Village, IL 4.8 mi
60714 Niles, IL 4.9 mi
60005 Arlington Heights, IL 4.9 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 60019?

60019 is in Des Plaines, Illinois, in Cook County, part of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metropolitan area. Its published point location is 42.0243, -87.9071.

What county is 60019 in?

60019 lies in Cook County.

What area code is 60019?

Des Plaines uses area codes 224 and 847, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 60019 in?

60019 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 60019?

The closest are 60017 (0.7 mi), 60016 (2.1 mi), 60056 (3.2 mi), 60018 (3.2 mi) and 60068 (3.3 mi).

Is 60019 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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