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The area codes in the U.S. State of New Jersey are a component of the North American Numbering Plan. 201 : Northeastern New Jersey, primarily Bergen County and Hudson County. 551 : Overlays area code 201.
List of New Jersey area codes; 0–9. Area codes 201 and 551; Area codes 609 and 640; Area codes 732 and 848; Area code 856; Area code 908; Area codes 973 and 862
Numbering plan areas and area codes of New Jersey Map of numbering plan area 201/551. Area codes 201 and 551 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in the U.S. State of New Jersey. Area code 201 was the area code assigned to the entire state of New Jersey in 1947, when the North American area code system was formed.
Overlayed new area code 640 over 609: 06:38, 16 January 2017: 408 × 391 (3.65 MB) Psiĥedelisto: fix wrong color of area code 609 barrier islands which was masked by outlines in previous version of image: 21:45, 3 December 2016: 408 × 391 (3.65 MB) Kbrose: Remove black emphasis of border lines: 16:37, 2 December 2016: 408 × 391 (3.67 MB ...
After the success of these trials, [23] [27] expansion of the numbering plan accelerated with new crossbar systems and four new area codes in 1953, and seven in 1954. By the end of the decade thirty-one new area codes had been created in addition to the initial allotment of 1947. [28] to satisfy the post-war surge in demand for telephone service.
Area code 973 was created on June 1, 1997, in a split of area code 201, [1] [2] which was the original area code for of all of New Jersey when the North American Numbering Plan was inaugurated for nationwide operator dialing in 1947. In 1958, the numbering plan area of 201 was cut back to the northern half of the state, and in 1991 to just the ...
The area includes Middlesex, Somerset, and Union counties in Northern and Central New Jersey, and Monmouth and northern Ocean counties on the New Jersey Shore. The assignment of area code 848 to the same numbering plan area in 2001 created an overlay complex for this region, after the pool of 732-numbers began to exhaust rapidly. [7]
Area code 856 was announced by Bell Atlantic in March 1999, and was approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities shortly thereafter. The new area code became operational on June 12, 1999. A permissive dialing period of five months ended on November 13, 1999, during which seven-digit was still permitted. Prior to October 2021, area code ...