Zipcodes

Okay, here's one I'm sure a bunch of you have encountered. Where can I find a free list of zipcodes and associated city/state information?

As an aside, why do you think that such information, presumably in the public domain, is so hard to come by?

Published Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:36 AM by taganov
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# re: Zipcodes

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:38 AM by Alan Yeung

the only free place is census, i built a branch locator (sample) with that free db.

# re: Zipcodes

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:53 AM by dave charlton

The best deal I found anywhere was:

http://www.zipcodedownload.com/

I don't believe it is in the public domain. But it should be.

# re: Zipcodes

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:04 PM by Eric Newton

has anybody checked with the US Post office?

www.usps.com

# re: Zipcodes

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:19 PM by DJ

Eric is correct - all zipcodes are freely available from the USPS site...

# re: Zipcodes

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:35 PM by weston weems

http://www.cfdynamics.com/zipbase/

Pretty complete... carries the long/lat values too to do all sorts of fun stuff.

# re: Zipcodes

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:54 PM by Chris McKenzie

Acutally, USPS charges for their ZipCodes. You can look up a city/state from a single zipcode, but you cannot get a list of all zipcodes and their associated city/state.

The link posted by weston weems seems to be the best one. Thanks weston!

# re: Zipcodes

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:37 PM by dru

Maybe we should email our senators and stuff. I just emailed all of mine. Really can't this informatoin be on the firstgov.gov.

# re: Zipcodes

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 2:34 PM by Matt

Census zip code files

Here is the 1999 version
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/zip1999.html

Here is what they offer now:
http://www.census.gov/geo/ZCTA/zcta.html

# Zipcode/Postalcode Validation

Wednesday, December 22, 2004 3:39 PM by TrackBack

# re: Zipcodes

Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:30 AM by Steve

start looking at the map and make your own

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