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96070

ZIP 96070 is Obrien, California, in Shasta County; area codes 530 and 837; Pacific time.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
Shasta
Metro area
Redding, CA
Coordinates
40.7352, -122.1944

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 96008, 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 96070
  • 🔢 Type 96070 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OLOgG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 96,070 = 2 × 5 × 13 × 739. Its digits add up to 22, a total 2,607 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10111011101000110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 96069 (Oak Run, CA, 10 mi away) and 96071 (Old Station, CA, 39 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 96070 becomes 07069 — and that is a real ZIP code: Watchung, NJ, 2,470 miles away.
  • 👥 28 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (00769, 00976, 06079, 06790, 06907, 07069, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09760 in APO AE, a military post office, 7,780 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 64% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 96%.
  • 🎯1,243 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 96070 and you would come out at 40.74°S, 57.81°E — 847 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 15h 06m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 15m.
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Land area

ZIP codes near 96070

ZIPCityDistance
96008 Bella Vista, CA 4.5 mi
96049 Redding, CA 6.4 mi
96003 Redding, CA 8.1 mi
96079 Shasta Lake, CA 8.1 mi
96073 Palo Cedro, CA 9.4 mi
96069 Oak Run, CA 10.0 mi
96099 Redding, CA 10.4 mi
96019 Shasta Lake, CA 11.2 mi
96089 Shasta Lake, CA 13.3 mi
96062 Millville, CA 13.5 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 96070?

96070 is in Obrien, California, in Shasta County, part of the Redding, CA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 40.7352, -122.1944.

What county is 96070 in?

96070 lies in Shasta County.

What area code is 96070?

Obrien uses area codes 530 and 837, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 96070 in?

96070 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 96070?

The closest are 96008 (4.5 mi), 96049 (6.4 mi), 96003 (8.1 mi), 96079 (8.1 mi) and 96073 (9.4 mi).

Is 96070 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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