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Washington, DC 20053
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Verizon, DC 20053

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The 20053 ZIP Code is centered1 in District of Columbia Neighborhood at latitude 38.885 and longitude -77.012 (Panoramio Photos). It is a unique - single entity - type ZIP Code. District of Columbia Neighborhood is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours) and observes daylight savings time.

Washington, DC 20053 Map (Marker is ZIP Code Centroid)

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Nearby Cities, Towns & Census Designated Places

Washington, DC (1.4 miles WNW)
Anacostia, DC (1.9 miles SE)
Eckington, DC (1.9 miles N)
Trinidad, DC (1.9 miles NE)
Bloomingdale, DC (2.4 miles N)
Ivy City, DC (2.4 miles NE)
LeDroit Park, DC (2.4 miles N)
Twining, DC (2.7 miles ESE)
Greenway, DC (3.1 miles E)
Columbia Heights, DC (3.1 miles NNW)

Nearby Neighborhoods, Subdivisions & Other Small Populated Places

Capitol Hill, DC (< 0.1 mile)
East End, DC (< 0.1 mile)
Buzzard Point, DC (< 0.1 mile)
Southwest, DC (< 0.1 mile)
Mount Vernon Square, DC (1.4 miles NNW)
Chinatown, DC (1.4 miles NNW)
East Central, DC (1.4 miles N)
Washington City, DC (1.4 miles NNW)
Stanton Park, DC (1.4 miles NNE)
Southeast, DC (1.4 miles ESE)

ZIP Codes - Key Concepts

  1. ZIP Codes are categories for grouping mailing addresses and are not exact geographic regions.
  2. The centroid of a ZIP Code may be in one Neighborhood and the associated city/town in another.
  3. In rural areas, a single ZIP Code may be used for cities and towns in several different Neighborhoods.
  4. ZIP Code "areas" can overlap, be subsets of each other, or be artificial constructs with no geographic area.
  5. ZIP Codes are only loosely tied to cities.

1 Keeping the above key concepts in mind, what we informally refer to as the "center" of a ZIP Code is most often actually the centroid of a polygon.