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99708

ZIP 99708 is in Fairbanks, Alaska, in Fairbanks North Star Borough; area code 907; Alaska time. Fairbanks has 10 ZIP codes in all.

Type
No street area
Time zone
America/Anchorage
Coordinates
64.9475, -147.8564

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 99709, whose figures describe that area — not this ZIP code.

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Where 99708 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 99708
  • 🔢 Type 99708 into a pocket calculator and turn it upside down: BOLGG — not quite a word, sorry.
  • ➕ As a number, 99,708 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 7 × 1187. Its digits add up to 33, a total 456 other ZIP codes share.
  • 💾In binary, the way a computer stores it: 11000010101111100
  • 🏠 Its numerical neighbours: 99707 (Fairbanks, AK, 49 mi away) and 99709 (Fairbanks, AK, 10 mi away).
  • 🔄 Backwards, 99708 becomes 80799, which is not a ZIP code at all.
  • 👥 10 other ZIP codes are made of exactly the same digits (09879, 09897, 79098, 79908, 79980, 80997, …). The farthest-flung twin is 09879 in APO AA, a military post office, 6,195 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 99708 and you would come out at 64.95°S, 32.14°E — 1,744 miles from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories, the nearest big city to that spot.
  • ☀Longest day of the year: 21h 58m of daylight. Shortest: 3h 37m.
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Business and tax activity

Business establishments24This ZIP24
Employees189This ZIP189
Annual payroll$13,763,000This ZIP$13,763,000

Land area

ZIP codes near 99708

ZIPCityDistance
99775 Fairbanks, AK 6.3 mi
99725 Ester, AK 7.7 mi
99710 Fairbanks, AK 8.6 mi
99711 Fairbanks, AK 8.6 mi
99709 Fairbanks, AK 9.8 mi
99703 Fort Wainwright, AK 10.4 mi
99705 North Pole, AK 21.0 mi
99716 Two Rivers, AK 28.5 mi
99702 Eielson Afb, AK 31.4 mi
99790 Fairbanks, AK 36.1 mi

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Questions about this ZIP code

Where is ZIP code 99708?

99708 is in Fairbanks, Alaska, in Fairbanks North Star Borough, part of the Fairbanks-College, AK metropolitan area. Its published point location is 64.9475, -147.8564.

What county is 99708 in?

99708 lies in Fairbanks North Star Borough.

What area code is 99708?

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

What time zone is 99708 in?

99708 uses America/Anchorage.

What ZIP codes are near 99708?

The closest are 99775 (6.3 mi), 99725 (7.7 mi), 99710 (8.6 mi), 99711 (8.6 mi) and 99709 (9.8 mi).

Is 99708 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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