Varney, Kentucky facts for kids
Varney is a small place in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. It's called an unincorporated community, which means it's a group of homes and businesses that isn't officially a city or town with its own local government. Instead, it's part of the larger county. In 2000, about 543 people lived in the area around Varney that shares its ZIP Code, which is 41571. Varney is located in the eastern part of Kentucky.
Varney in Movies and Pop Culture
Varney might be a small place, but its ZIP Code once played a small part in a big Hollywood movie!
The Bourne Ultimatum Connection
In the 2007 action film The Bourne Ultimatum, the ZIP Code for Varney, Kentucky (41571), was used as a secret code. In the movie, a character named Pamela Landey gives Bourne a birth date: 4/15/71. This date was actually a code, not his real birthday.
When agents from a secret operation called Blackbriar listened in on the phone call, they tried to figure out what the numbers meant. One agent thought the numbers could be changed into longitude and latitude coordinates, pointing to a place in Cameroon. However, another agent realized that 41571 is the actual ZIP Code for Varney, Kentucky!
In the end, it was discovered that the code was an instruction for Bourne to go to 415 East 71st Street in New York City. So, even though Varney itself wasn't in the movie, its ZIP Code was a clever part of the film's mystery!
