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Map of all Tennessee area codes. 423 - Chattanooga, Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol: Initially split from 615 in 1995. 615 and 629 (overlay) - Greater Nashville, including Murfreesboro, Mount Juliet: 615 initially split from 901 in a 1954 flash-cut. The 629 overlay for the entire area code was made effective in 2015
As a result, while the eastern two-thirds of the state went from one area code to four from 1995 to 1999, 901 remained the sole area code for West Tennessee for 47 years. However, by the turn of the millennium, 901 was close to exhaustion due to the Memphis area's rapid growth, as well as the proliferation of cell phones and pagers.
Low's Map of Kentucky and neighboring Territories did not yet include West Tennessee, controlled by the Chickasaw Nation until 1818. From Low's Encyclopaedia. The first Europeans to reach what is now West Tennessee were part of an expedition led by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who in 1541 became the first Europeans to reach the Mississippi River south of present-day Memphis.
Area code 731 was created in September 2001 in a split from area code 901, which was the original area code created for the entire state in 1947. NPA 901 has since been restricted for use in the greater Memphis metropolitan area only. Prior to October 2021, area code 731 had telephone numbers assigned for the central office code 988.
The Mid-South is an informally-defined region of the United States, usually thought to be anchored by the Memphis metropolitan area. Exact definitions vary widely and consist of at least West Tennessee, North Mississippi, Northeast Arkansas, Southern Missouri and Missouri Bootheel at a minimum. [2]
The Memphis–Clarksdale–Forrest City Combined Statistical Area, TN–MS–AR (CSA) is the commercial and cultural hub of the Mid-South or Ark-Miss-Tenn. The census-defined combined statistical area covers eleven counties in three states, Tennessee , Mississippi , and Arkansas .
An area within those boundaries that has not been annexed by the city of Memphis is a neighborhood known as the Bridgewater area, roughly bounded by I-40 to the north, Germantown Parkway to the east, Shelby Farms to the south and Whitten Road to the west. Memphis did try to annex this area in the mid-2000s but held it off due to an inability to ...
Tennessee (most of West Tennessee, excluding Metropolitan Memphis and Shelby County (area code 901), but including Dyersburg, Jackson, Martin, Paris, Union City, and Crockett County) February 12, 2001