A social security number with the first 3 digits being 542 was issued originally in the state of Oregon. Numbers are sometimes recycled due to infant mortality or death occurring long ago.
Oregon has that series.
Such numbers were issued in Connecticut.
Illinois
California
indiana
Ohio
Tennessee
georgia
Oklahoma
Alabama
California
A social security number that starts with 459 was issued in Texas from 1936 to 1988. It indicates where the number was issued, not where the person was born.
North Carolina