Lincoln County ZIP Codes

Lincoln County is a county of North Carolina.

ZIP codes: 6
Cities & towns: 5
Area codes: 2
Land area: 296 sq mi

Every ZIP code in Lincoln County

280xx–281xx

The complete list of Lincoln County, NC ZIP codes with the city each one delivers to.
ZIP code	City
28033	Crouse
28037	Denver
28080	Iron Station
28092	Lincolnton
28093	Lincolnton
28168	Vale

We do not publish a delivery type (standard, PO box, unique) or a neighbourhood for each ZIP. USPS delivery-type products are licensed, and no clean-rights source maps ZIP codes to neighbourhoods — so the Lincoln County codes above are listed without a column we would have to invent.

Cities and towns in Lincoln County

A further 2 places in Lincoln County appear in the postal source without a page of its own; their codes are in the table above and each one links to its own page.

Area codes covering Lincoln County

Telephone and postal boundaries are drawn by different bodies, so these codes overlap the county without matching its edges.

Where Lincoln County's ZIP codes sit

Each point is the reference point of one Lincoln County ZIP code, plotted from its record coordinates. The outline is the convex envelope of those points — a footprint, not a boundary.

Reference points and footprint
Not an official NANPA boundary
Not a USPS delivery area

Scope every ZIP code recorded in Lincoln County. Source GeoNames US postal codes (2026-07 postal dump), Census 2024 county Gazetteer (2024 Gazetteer) and geoinfo-dataset (full_dataset) ZIP→NPA (2018 snapshot). Updated 16 July 2026. The outline is a convex envelope of ZIP reference points, not a jurisdiction boundary.