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80488

ZIP 80488 is in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in Routt County; area code 970; Mountain time. Steamboat Springs has 3 ZIP codes; the others are 80477 and 80487.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Denver
County
Routt
Coordinates
40.6197, -106.8607

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 80487, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 80488 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 80488
  • 🔢 Type 80488 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: BBhOB — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 80,488 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 10061. Its digits add up to 28, a total 1,520 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10011101001101000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 80487 (Steamboat Springs, CO, 3 mi away) and 80497 (Silverthorne, CO, 78 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 80488 becomes 88408, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 7 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (08848, 08884, 48088, 48808, 48880, 84088, …). The farthest-flung twin is 08884 in Spotswood, NJ, 1,696 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 62% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 84%.
  • 🎯440 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 80488 and you would come out at 40.62°S, 73.14°E — 620 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 05m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 16m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments29This ZIP29
Employees223This ZIP223
Annual payroll$10,400,000This ZIP$10,400,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 80488

ZIPCityDistance
80487 Steamboat Springs, CO 3.0 mi
80477 Steamboat Springs, CO 9.4 mi
80428 Clark, CO 15.8 mi
81639 Hayden, CO 20.6 mi
80430 Coalmont, CO 24.3 mi
80480 Walden, CO 27.5 mi
81653 Slater, CO 27.6 mi
80467 Oak Creek, CO 28.5 mi
80469 Phippsburg, CO 28.6 mi
80434 Cowdrey, CO 35.9 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 80488?

80488 is in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in Routt County, part of the Steamboat Springs, CO micropolitan area. Its published point location is 40.6197, -106.8607.

What county is 80488 in?

80488 lies in Routt County.

What area code is 80488?

Steamboat Springs uses area code 970, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 80488 in?

80488 uses America/Denver.

What ZIP codes are near 80488?

The closest are 80487 (3 mi), 80477 (9.4 mi), 80428 (15.8 mi), 81639 (20.6 mi) and 80430 (24.3 mi).

Is 80488 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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