A Southern CA City Comes Of Age

It's a small oil town of 9,300 residents, surrounded by a big city. All they want is their own zip code.

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January 8, 2002, 1:00 PM PST

Signal Hill is 2.2 square miles surrounded by Long Beach. It has 3 Long Beach zip codes which causes innumerable problems including higher insurance costs, mistaken utility charges and lost mail. For 12 years they have been working to get its own zip code, and become its own little city.

Thanks to Gwenn Hilburn

FULL STORY: Rebirth of Signal Hill

Monday, January 7, 2002 in The Los Angeles Times

Government / Politics California

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