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99520

ZIP 99520 is in Anchorage, Alaska, in Anchorage Municipality; area code 907; Alaska time. Anchorage has 25 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Anchorage
County
Anchorage
Metro area
Anchorage, AK
Coordinates
61.2181, -149.9003

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 99501, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 99520 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 99520
  • 🔢 Type 99520 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: OZSGG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 99,520 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 5 × 311. Its digits add up to 25, a total 2,242 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 11000010011000000
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 99519 (Anchorage, AK, 608 mi away) and 99521 (Anchorage, AK, 0 mi away). Next door on paper, a road trip in real life.
  • 🔄 Backwards, 99520 becomes 02599, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 18 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (09259, 20599, 25909, 29059, 29590, 29905, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09259 in APO AE, a military post office, 4,776 miles away.
  • 🧭 Farther north than 99% of all ZIP codes, and farther west than 99%.
  • 🎯2,597 miles northwest of the geographic center of the Lower 48, near Lebanon, Kansas.
  • 🌏 Dig straight through the Earth from 99520 and you would come out at 61.22°S, 30.10°E — 1,741 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 19h 22m of daylight. Shortest: 5h 27m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments3This ZIP3
Employees11This ZIP11
Annual payroll$96,000This ZIP$96,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 99520

ZIPCityDistance
99509 Anchorage, AK 0.0 mi
99514 Anchorage, AK 0.0 mi
99521 Anchorage, AK 0.0 mi
99522 Anchorage, AK 0.0 mi
99523 Anchorage, AK 0.0 mi
99524 Anchorage, AK 0.0 mi
99513 Anchorage, AK 0.5 mi
99501 Anchorage, AK 1.4 mi
99599 Anchorage, AK 2.2 mi
99517 Anchorage, AK 2.3 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 99520?

99520 is in Anchorage, Alaska, in Anchorage Municipality, part of the Anchorage, AK metropolitan area. Its published point location is 61.2181, -149.9003.

What county is 99520 in?

99520 lies in Anchorage Municipality.

What area code is 99520?

Anchorage uses area code 907, from NANPA's telephone records.

What time zone is 99520 in?

99520 uses America/Anchorage.

What ZIP codes are near 99520?

The closest are 99509 (0 mi), 99514 (0 mi), 99521 (0 mi), 99522 (0 mi) and 99523 (0 mi).

Is 99520 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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