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Preferred Name, USPS
Olympia, WA 98501
Acceptable Alternative
Tumwater, WA 98501
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Boston Harbor, WA 98501
Maytown, WA 98501
Nisqually, WA 98501
Offutt Lake, WA 98501
Oly, WA 98501
Schneiders Prairie, WA 98501
South Bay, WA 98501
South Sound, WA 98501
Thompson Place, WA 98501
Union Mills, WA 98501

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The 98501 ZIP Code is centered1 in Thurston County at latitude 46.991 and longitude -122.874 (Panoramio Photos). It is a standard type ZIP Code. Thurston County is in the Pacific Time Zone (UTC -8 hours) and observes daylight savings time.

The population in ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) 98501 was 33,049 with 14,611 housing units; a land area land area of 37.02 sq. miles; a water area of 0.58 sq. miles; and a population density of 892.62 people per sq. mile for Census 2000. Demographic Profile

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Nearby Cities, Towns & Census Designated Places

Tumwater, WA (1.9 miles NW)
East Olympia, WA (2.4 miles SE)
Olympia, WA (3.6 miles NNW)
South Union, WA (3.6 miles SSW)
Lacey, WA (3.9 miles NE)
Belmore, WA (4.1 miles W)
Kellys Korner, WA (4.9 miles E)
Union Mill, WA (5.5 miles ENE)
Tanglewilde, WA (6 miles NE)
Offutt Lake, WA (6 miles SSE)

Nearby Neighborhoods, Subdivisions & Other Small Populated Places

Bush, WA (< 0.1 mile)
Plumb, WA (4.3 miles S)
Lamberts Corner, WA (4.3 miles WNW)
Fir Tree, WA (4.9 miles ESE)
Mushroom Corner, WA (6.4 miles NE)
Sunset Beach, WA (8.2 miles NNW)
Sunrise Beach, WA (8.5 miles NW)
Madrona Beach, WA (8.8 miles NW)
Gravelly Beach, WA (9 miles NNW)
McIntosh, WA (10 miles SSE)

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  2. The centroid of a ZIP Code may be in one County 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 Counties.
  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.