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In 1988, area code 407 was introduced for the Orlando area. [1] In 1995, area code 954 was introduced for Broward County. In 1996, area code 239 was introduced for southwest Florida and area code 352 for the areas around Gainesville and Ocala. Many new area codes were introduced in the first two decades of the 21st century, as a result of city ...
Area code 813 was unmodified for 43 years until 1996, when the 13 counties outside of the immediate Tampa Bay area (all but Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco counties) were assigned area code 941. In 1999, numbering plan area 863 took its current form as the coastal counties kept 941, while the rest received area code 863.
Later in 1995, the Florida Public Service Commission planned a three-way split to relieve the overcrowded 904 area code. In this plan, the Jacksonville area would be reassigned to the proposed area code 234, while the Daytona Beach LATA would be assigned area code 386. The Pensacola, Panama City, and Tallahassee areas would have kept area code 904.
Sebring (/ ˈ s iː b r ɪ ŋ / SEE-bring [citation needed]) is a city and the county seat of Highlands County, United States. It is nicknamed "The City on the Circle", in reference to Circle Drive, the center of the Sebring Downtown Historic District. [7] [8] It is the principal city of the Sebring, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. [9]
[8] [9] Monroe County was added to area code 786 on September 1, 2001. [10] [11] The Florida Public Service Commission approved a third area code for the Miami region on February 25, 2022. Area code 645 was activated on August 4, 2023, before the anticipated exhaust of central office codes in 305 and 786, which was likely to occur in 2023. [12]
The SMA was first defined in 2003 as the Sebring, Florida Micropolitan Statistical Area (μSA), consisting of Highlands County. The status of the area was changed to a metropolitan statisitical area (MSA) in 2013. The MSA was renamed the Sebring-Avon Park, Florida MSA in 2018. The name reverted to Sebring, Florida MSA in 2023. [4] [5]
Area codes 850 and 448 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for the Florida panhandle, including Pensacola, Tallahassee and Panama City. [1] Area code 850 was created in 1997 in a split from 904, and area code 448 was assigned as a second code to the same area in an overlay plan in 2019; mandatory ten-digit local dialing began in May 2021.
The largest tourist attraction in the Florida Heartland is the Sebring International Raceway, southeast of Sebring in Highlands County. There, the 12 Hours of Sebring , an American Le Mans Series race usually held in the second week of March, drew a "paying crowd" of more than 169,000 in 2006. [ 2 ]