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70540

ZIP 70540 is Garden City, Louisiana, in St. Mary Parish; area code 337; Central time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
St. Mary
Metro area
Morgan City, LA
Coordinates
29.7633, -91.4670

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 70538, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 70540 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 70540
  • 🔢 Type 70540 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OhSOL — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 70,540 = 2 × 2 × 5 × 3527. Its digits add up to 16, a total 1,922 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10001001110001100
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 70538 (Franklin, LA, 3 mi away) and 70541 (Grand Coteau, LA, 57 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 70540 becomes 04507, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 33 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00745, 00754, 04057, 04570, 04750, 05047, …). The farthest-flung twin is 00745 in Rio Grande, PR, 1,795 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 94% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 60%.
  • 🎯803 miles southeast of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 70540 and you would come out at 29.76°S, 88.53°E — 1,328 miles from West Island, Cocos Islands, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 04m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 14m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 70540

ZIPCityDistance
70522 Centerville, LA 2.1 mi
70538 Franklin, LA 3.3 mi
70514 Baldwin, LA 7.9 mi
70523 Charenton, LA 8.4 mi
70392 Patterson, LA 9.9 mi
70381 Morgan City, LA 13.3 mi
70342 Berwick, LA 14.6 mi
70544 Jeanerette, LA 15.0 mi
70339 Pierre Part, LA 19.5 mi
70380 Morgan City, LA 21.8 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 70540?

70540 is in Garden City, Louisiana, in St. Mary Parish, part of the Morgan City, LA micropolitan area. Its published point location is 29.7633, -91.4670.

What county is 70540 in?

70540 lies in St. Mary Parish.

What area code is 70540?

Garden City uses area code 337, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 70540 in?

70540 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 70540?

The closest are 70522 (2.1 mi), 70538 (3.3 mi), 70514 (7.9 mi), 70523 (8.4 mi) and 70392 (9.9 mi).

Is 70540 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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