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zipcodes.pro — ZIP/96158

96158

ZIP 96158 is in South Lake Tahoe, California, in El Dorado County; area codes 530 and 837; Pacific time. South Lake Tahoe has 8 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Los_Angeles
County
El Dorado
Coordinates
38.8981, -119.9984

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 96150, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 96158 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 96158
  • 🔢 Type 96158 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: BSIgG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 96,158 = 2 × 48079. Its digits add up to 29, a total 1,296 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 10111011110011110
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 96157 (South Lake Tahoe, CA, 3 mi away) and 96160 (Truckee, CA, 31 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 96158 becomes 85169, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 17 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (15689, 15698, 16859, 18956, 61859, 85619, …). The farthest-flung twin is 96518 in APO AA, a military post office, 4,512 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther south than 51% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 93%.
  • 🎯1,143 miles west of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 96158 and you would come out at 38.90°S, 60.00°E — 880 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 14h 54m of daylight. Shortest: 9h 26m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments17This ZIP17
Employees133This ZIP133
Annual payroll$10,281,000This ZIP$10,281,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 96158

ZIPCityDistance
96151 South Lake Tahoe, CA 0.4 mi
96154 South Lake Tahoe, CA 1.9 mi
96152 South Lake Tahoe, CA 2.0 mi
96157 South Lake Tahoe, CA 2.8 mi
96156 South Lake Tahoe, CA 3.1 mi
96150 South Lake Tahoe, CA 4.1 mi
89449 Stateline, NV 6.1 mi
95721 Echo Lake, CA 7.7 mi
89448 Zephyr Cove, NV 8.1 mi
96142 Tahoma, CA 9.0 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 96158?

96158 is in South Lake Tahoe, California, in El Dorado County, part of the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metropolitan area. Its published point location is 38.8981, -119.9984.

What county is 96158 in?

96158 lies in El Dorado County.

What area code is 96158?

South Lake Tahoe uses area codes 530 and 837, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 96158 in?

96158 uses America/Los_Angeles.

What ZIP codes are near 96158?

The closest are 96151 (0.4 mi), 96154 (1.9 mi), 96152 (2 mi), 96157 (2.8 mi) and 96156 (3.1 mi).

Is 96158 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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