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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/92842

92842

ZIP 92842 is in Garden Grove, California, in Orange County; area codes 714 and 657; Pacific time. Garden Grove has 7 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
Orange
Coordinates
33.7783, -117.9456

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 92840, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 92842 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 92842
  • 🔢 Type 92842 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZhBZG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 92,842 = 2 × 61 × 761. Its digits add up to 25, a total 2,242 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10110101010101010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 92841 (Garden Grove, CA, 2 mi away) and 92843 (Garden Grove, CA, 1 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 92842 becomes 24829 — and that is a real ZIP code: Eckman, WV, 2,042 miles away.
  • 👥 20 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (22849, 22948, 24829, 24892, 28429, 29482, …). The farthest-flung twin is 28429 in Castle Hayne, NC, 2,277 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 81% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 91%.
  • 🎯1,147 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 92842 and you would come out at 33.78°S, 62.05°E — 978 miles from Saint-Denis, Reunion, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 24m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 54m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments4This ZIP4
Employees13This ZIP13
Annual payroll$850,000This ZIP$850,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 92842

ZIPCityDistance
92840 Garden Grove, CA 1.0 mi
92843 Garden Grove, CA 1.3 mi
92844 Garden Grove, CA 1.6 mi
92841 Garden Grove, CA 2.2 mi
92802 Anaheim, CA 2.4 mi
92814 Anaheim, CA 2.8 mi
92812 Anaheim, CA 2.8 mi
92703 Santa Ana, CA 3.1 mi
92804 Anaheim, CA 3.2 mi
90680 Stanton, CA 3.3 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 92842?

92842 is in Garden Grove, California, in Orange County, part of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 33.7783, -117.9456.

What county is 92842 in?

92842 lies in Orange County.

What area code is 92842?

Garden Grove uses area codes 714 and 657, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 92842 in?

92842 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 92842?

The closest are 92840 (1 mi), 92843 (1.3 mi), 92844 (1.6 mi), 92841 (2.2 mi) and 92802 (2.4 mi).

Is 92842 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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