Zipping Through the Crawford Ranch Code

This one turned out to be a little trickier than expected. Though I did come up with the right answer within a minute, I couldn’t get a locked-in confirmation that the answer was the right answer, for sure. See, here’s how it went…

A patron called in, seeking the zip code for Crawford, TX. This was easily located by searching for “Crawford, TX” and “zip code” – the code is 76638. However, then the patron clarified that what they really wanted was the zip code for the Crawford Ranch (apparently properly called the Prairie Chapel Ranch), President George W. Bush’s private ranch. A couple of searches for “crawford ranch” “tx” and “crawford ranch” “address” did not prove very useful (though I did find a sort of appallingly funny parody page for “The Western White House“: Crawford’s official motto is “1295 miles from Washington DC, 97% White, and ARMED TO THE TEETH!”). You could map it on Google Maps, but not get the actual address. So I switched tactics – having obtained a map of the region, I went looking for a zip code map that I could browse. Searching for “zip code” “map” “tx”, I located an interactive map at Hip Codes.com. I zoomed and clicked and dragged until I found the region I wanted, which proved to actually be very close to the border between 76638 and 76689. The pin from Google maps falls on the -38 side, though, so I figured that must be the correct zip code.

Conclusion: Mail the president!

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