Here’s an interesting little tidbit I came across several days ago, courtesy my husband, who was looking up the local weather forecast on Weather.com.
We are not the only 14580 postal code in the world. Turns out that Guará, a municipality in São Paulo Brazil, AND Gyeonggi-do, a province in South Korea, share our 14580 postal code.
Guará is a small city of 21,000 people in south-central Brazil, known for its … well, Feira do Guara gift shop. In contrast, 13.4 million people live in Gyeonggi-do province, known for its ceramics, the Hwaseong Fortress, and the Royal Buddhist Temple. We can assume that 14580 is not the only postal code they use in the area.
So that’s kind of interesting, and of course I started wondering if there were other zip-code copycats out there. I first looked for Penfield’s 14526, without much luck. But after a few more minutes of digging, I discovered my old 14609 postal code in Las Tórtolas, Mexico.
But then I had to stop for lunch, so I leave you all to do more investigation should you so choose.
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(posted 8/25/2024)
webster on the web 
As a variation on your theme, I searched for locations named Webster. In addition to NY, there are Websters in Wisconsin, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Dakota, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Montana, Mississippi, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Kentucky, Kansas, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Florida, Colorado and California. In Canada, there is Webster, Alberta. In South Africa there is a Webster – Eastern Cape. No idea how many are named in honor of Danny Webster, the great statesman and member of Congress.
[cf. https://geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=Webster%5D
How interesting and fun is that!!! I Imagine at least the one in South Africa is not named after Daniel Webster 🙂