The
only 2 individuals to have their own zip code are Smokey Bear (aka Smokey the
Bear) and the President of the United States.
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Smokey Bear is an American advertising icon created by
the U.S. Forest Service. In the longest-running public service advertising
campaign in United States history, the Ad Council, the United States Forest
Service (USFS), and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) employ
Smokey Bear to educate the public about the dangers of unplanned human-caused
wildfires.
The living symbol of Smokey Bear was a five-pound, three-month-old
American black bear cub who was found in the spring of 1950 after the Capitan
Gap fire, a wildfire that burned in the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico.
Smokey had climbed a tree to escape the blaze, but his paws and hind legs had
been burned. Local crews who had come from New Mexico and Texas to fight the
blaze removed the cub from the tree.
Smokey Bear lived at the National Zoo for 26 years.
During that time, he received millions of visitors as well as so many letters
addressed to him (more than 13,000 a week) that in 1964 the United States
Postal Service gave him his own ZIP code (20252). He developed a love for
peanut butter sandwiches, in addition to his daily diet of bluefish and
trout.
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