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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/86342

86342

ZIP 86342 is Lake Montezuma, Arizona, in Yavapai County; area code 928; Mountain Standard Time all year.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Phoenix
County
Yavapai
Coordinates
34.6417, -111.7872

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 86335, 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 86342
  • 🔢 Type 86342 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZhEgB — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 86,342 = 2 × 23 × 1877. Its digits add up to 23, a total 2,533 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10101000101000110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 86341 (Sedona, AZ, 9 mi away) and 86343 (Crown King, AZ, 43 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 86342 becomes 24368 — and that is a real ZIP code: Rural Retreat, VA, 1,709 miles away.
  • 👥 49 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (23486, 23846, 24368, 24836, 26348, 26384, …). The farthest-flung twin is 23486 in Willis Wharf, VA, 2,007 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 76% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 87%.
  • 🎯809 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 86342 and you would come out at 34.64°S, 68.21°E — 1,021 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 29m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 50m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments3This ZIP3
Employees14This ZIP14
Annual payroll$348,000This ZIP$348,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 86342

ZIPCityDistance
86335 Rimrock, AZ 7.1 mi
86325 Cornville, AZ 9.0 mi
86341 Sedona, AZ 9.4 mi
86351 Sedona, AZ 9.5 mi
86322 Camp Verde, AZ 11.8 mi
86326 Cottonwood, AZ 13.5 mi
86339 Sedona, AZ 15.8 mi
86336 Sedona, AZ 16.9 mi
86327 Dewey, AZ 19.3 mi
86331 Jerome, AZ 20.4 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 86342?

86342 is in Lake Montezuma, Arizona, in Yavapai County, part of the Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ metropolitan area. Its published point location is 34.6417, -111.7872.

What county is 86342 in?

86342 lies in Yavapai County.

What area code is 86342?

Lake Montezuma uses area code 928, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 86342 in?

86342 uses America/Phoenix.

What ZIP codes are near 86342?

The closest are 86335 (7.1 mi), 86325 (9 mi), 86341 (9.4 mi), 86351 (9.5 mi) and 86322 (11.8 mi).

Is 86342 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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