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78952

ZIP 78952 is Plum, Texas, in Fayette County; area code 979; Central time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Chicago
County
Fayette
Metro area
none
Coordinates
29.9349, -96.9675

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 78945, 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 78952
  • 🔢 Type 78952 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZSGBL — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 78,952 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 71 × 139. Its digits add up to 31, a total 799 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10011010001101000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 78951 (Oakland, TX, 23 mi away) and 78953 (Rosanky, TX, 24 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 78952 becomes 25987, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 37 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (25879, 25978, 27589, 27895, 27958, 27985, …). The farthest-flung twin is 98257 in La Conner, WA, 1,855 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 93% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 74%.
  • 🎯690 miles south of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 78952 and you would come out at 29.93°S, 83.03°E — 1,500 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 04m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 13m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 78952

ZIPCityDistance
78963 West Point, TX 3.9 mi
78945 La Grange, TX 4.9 mi
78949 Muldoon, TX 9.0 mi
78960 Warda, TX 10.1 mi
78957 Smithville, TX 14.0 mi
78942 Giddings, TX 15.3 mi
78956 Schulenburg, TX 17.3 mi
78938 Ellinger, TX 17.6 mi
78954 Round Top, TX 17.7 mi
78941 Flatonia, TX 18.3 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 78952?

78952 is in Plum, Texas, in Fayette County. Its published point location is 29.9349, -96.9675.

What county is 78952 in?

78952 lies in Fayette County.

What area code is 78952?

Plum uses area code 979, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 78952 in?

78952 uses America/Chicago.

What ZIP codes are near 78952?

The closest are 78963 (3.9 mi), 78945 (4.9 mi), 78949 (9 mi), 78960 (10.1 mi) and 78957 (14 mi).

Is 78952 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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