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95042

ZIP 95042 is New Almaden, California, in Santa Clara County; area codes 408 and 669; Pacific time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
Santa Clara
Coordinates
37.1771, -121.8207

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 95120, 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 95042
  • 🔢 Type 95042 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: ZhOSG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 95,042 = 2 × 47521. Its digits add up to 20, a total 2,586 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10111001101000010
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 95041 (Mount Hermon, CA, 16 mi away) and 95043 (Paicines, CA, 65 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 95042 becomes 24059 — and that is a real ZIP code: Bent Mountain, VA, 2,276 miles away.
  • 👥 50 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (02459, 02495, 04259, 04925, 04952, 05492, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09245 in APO AE, a military post office, 5,883 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 63% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 95%.
  • 🎯1,266 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 95042 and you would come out at 37.18°S, 58.18°E — 1,034 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 43m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 36m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 95042

ZIPCityDistance
95120 San Jose, CA 1.4 mi
95160 San Jose, CA 3.6 mi
95119 San Jose, CA 3.9 mi
95032 Los Gatos, CA 4.5 mi
95139 San Jose, CA 4.5 mi
95193 San Jose, CA 4.7 mi
95123 San Jose, CA 4.7 mi
95153 San Jose, CA 5.1 mi
95013 Coyote, CA 5.2 mi
95138 San Jose, CA 6.2 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 95042?

95042 is in New Almaden, California, in Santa Clara County, part of the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 37.1771, -121.8207.

What county is 95042 in?

95042 lies in Santa Clara County.

What area code is 95042?

New Almaden uses area codes 408 and 669, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 95042 in?

95042 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 95042?

The closest are 95120 (1.4 mi), 95160 (3.6 mi), 95119 (3.9 mi), 95032 (4.5 mi) and 95139 (4.5 mi).

Is 95042 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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