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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/88062

88062

ZIP 88062 is in Silver City, New Mexico, in Grant County; area code 575; Mountain time. Silver City has 2 ZIP codes; the other is 88061.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Denver
County
Grant
Metro area
Silver City, NM
Coordinates
32.7282, -108.1379

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 88043, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 88062 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 88062
  • 🔢 Type 88062 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZgOBB — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 88,062 = 2 × 3 × 13 × 1129. Its digits add up to 24, a total 2,425 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10101011111111110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 88061 (Silver City, NM, 17 mi away) and 88063 (Sunland Park, NM, 113 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 88062 becomes 26088, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 24 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02886, 06828, 08628, 08826, 08862, 20688, …). The farthest-flung twin is 02886 in Warwick, RI, 2,094 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 85% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 85%.
  • 🎯723 miles southwest of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 88062 and you would come out at 32.73°S, 71.86°E — 1,152 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 18m of daylight. Shortest: 10h 00m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments14This ZIP14
Employees170This ZIP170
Annual payroll$5,521,000This ZIP$5,521,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 88062

ZIPCityDistance
88026 Santa Clara, NM 2.2 mi
88023 Bayard, NM 2.9 mi
88022 Arenas Valley, NM 5.9 mi
88036 Fort Bayard, NM 7.8 mi
88043 Hurley, NM 8.7 mi
88065 Tyrone, NM 9.6 mi
88053 Pinos Altos, NM 12.4 mi
88034 Faywood, NM 13.8 mi
88041 Hanover, NM 15.9 mi
88061 Silver City, NM 17.1 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 88062?

88062 is in Silver City, New Mexico, in Grant County, part of the Silver City, NM micropolitan area. Its published point location is 32.7282, -108.1379.

What county is 88062 in?

88062 lies in Grant County.

What area code is 88062?

Silver City uses area code 575, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 88062 in?

88062 uses America/Denver.

What ZIP codes are near 88062?

The closest are 88026 (2.2 mi), 88023 (2.9 mi), 88022 (5.9 mi), 88036 (7.8 mi) and 88043 (8.7 mi).

Is 88062 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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