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60037

ZIP 60037 is Fort Sheridan, Illinois, in Lake County; area codes 847 and 224; Central time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Lake
Coordinates
42.2097, -87.8056

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 60035, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 60037 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 60037
  • 🔢 Type 60037 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: LEOOg — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ 60037 is a prime number. It cannot be divided by anything except 1 and itself. Its digits add up to 16, a total 1,922 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 1110101010000101
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 60035 (Highland Park, IL, 2 mi away) and 60038 (Palatine, IL, 13 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 60037 becomes 73006 — and that is a real ZIP code: Apache, OK, 762 miles away.
  • 👥 27 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00637, 00736, 03076, 03607, 06037, 06073, …). The farthest-flung twin is 00736 in Cayey, PR, 2,096 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 77% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 50%.
  • 🎯585 miles east of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 60037 and you would come out at 42.21°S, 92.19°E — 1,163 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 16m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 05m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments4This ZIP4
Employees13This ZIP13
Annual payroll$745,000This ZIP$745,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 60037

ZIPCityDistance
60040 Highwood, IL 0.4 mi
60035 Highland Park, IL 1.6 mi
60045 Lake Forest, IL 3.5 mi
60015 Deerfield, IL 4.5 mi
60022 Glencoe, IL 5.6 mi
60065 Northbrook, IL 5.8 mi
60044 Lake Bluff, IL 6.1 mi
60069 Lincolnshire, IL 6.1 mi
60062 Northbrook, IL 6.1 mi
60082 Techny, IL 6.5 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 60037?

60037 is in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, in Lake County, part of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metropolitan area. Its published point location is 42.2097, -87.8056.

What county is 60037 in?

60037 lies in Lake County.

What area code is 60037?

Fort Sheridan uses area codes 847 and 224, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 60037 in?

60037 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 60037?

The closest are 60040 (0.4 mi), 60035 (1.6 mi), 60045 (3.5 mi), 60015 (4.5 mi) and 60022 (5.6 mi).

Is 60037 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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