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81636

ZIP 81636 is Battlement Mesa, Colorado, in Garfield County; area code 970; Mountain time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Denver
County
Garfield
Metro area
Rifle, CO
Coordinates
39.4305, -108.0239

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 81635, 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 81636
  • 🔢 Type 81636 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: gEgIB — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 81,636 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 6803. Its digits add up to 24, a total 2,425 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10011111011100100
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 81635 (Parachute, CO, 8 mi away) and 81637 (Gypsum, CO, 54 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 81636 becomes 63618, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 20 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (13668, 16368, 16638, 16683, 16836, 16863, …). The farthest-flung twin is 13668 in Norwood, NY, 1,721 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 52% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 85%.
  • 🎯503 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 81636 and you would come out at 39.43°S, 71.98°E — 691 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 57m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 23m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 81636

ZIPCityDistance
81635 Parachute, CO 7.6 mi
81652 Silt, CO 18.9 mi
81643 Mesa, CO 22.2 mi
81646 Molina, CO 22.6 mi
81650 Rifle, CO 22.7 mi
81624 Collbran, CO 23.9 mi
81647 New Castle, CO 28.1 mi
81630 De Beque, CO 28.9 mi
81526 Palisade, CO 29.5 mi
81520 Clifton, CO 31.1 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 81636?

81636 is in Battlement Mesa, Colorado, in Garfield County, part of the Rifle, CO micropolitan area. Its published point location is 39.4305, -108.0239.

What county is 81636 in?

81636 lies in Garfield County.

What area code is 81636?

Battlement Mesa uses area code 970, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 81636 in?

81636 uses America/Denver.

What ZIP codes are near 81636?

The closest are 81635 (7.6 mi), 81652 (18.9 mi), 81643 (22.2 mi), 81646 (22.6 mi) and 81650 (22.7 mi).

Is 81636 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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