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Original numbering plan areas and area codes of Minnesota in 1952. When the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) created the first nationwide telephone numbering plan for Operator Toll Dialing in 1947 to automate and speed the connection of long-distance calls, the United States and Canada were divided into 86 geographic numbering plan areas (NPAs) and assigned the original North ...
Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]
Minnesota (Duluth, Moorhead, Thief River Falls, Bemidji, Brainerd, International Falls, and most of northern Minnesota) 1947: 1954: split to create 507; 219: Indiana (Gary area) 1948: split of 317; 2002: split to create 260 and 574; 220: Ohio (suburban Columbus, central Ohio outside of Franklin County) April 22, 2015: overlaid on area code 740; 221
Central and southeastern Ohio except Columbus: December 6, 1997: 220: April 22, 2015: 614: Columbus: October 1947: 380: February 27, 2016: 937: Southwestern part of Ohio including Dayton, Springfield, public parts of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and areas north and east of the Cincinnati metropolitan area: September 28, 1996: 326: March 8 ...
Telephone dial number card of c.1948 with the local telephone number 4-5876 in Atlantic City, NJ, using the central office prefix 4, later converted to AT4 Face of a 1939 rotary telephone dial with the telephone number LA-2697, which includes the first two letters of Lakewood, New Jersey, as the central office prefix, later converted to LA6.
Area code 440 was established on August 16, 1997, in a three-way split of area code 216, one of the original North American area codes, [1] to provide relief from central office prefix exhaustion from increasing popularity of cellular phones and population pressure. [2]
A map of Minnesota area codes. Area code 218 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the northern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota.It is assigned to the largest of Minnesota's original two numbering plan areas (NPAs), although its geographical boundaries have been modified since inception.
Location Notes Added Base 557 314 St. Louis, Missouri (communities such as, but not limited to, St. Louis, Overland, Bridgeton, Florissant, Webster Groves, Creve Coeur, Kirkwood and Sappington) Initial overlay area code plan was announced October 24, 2000. New 557 area code was announced in February 2022 and went into effect August 12, 2022.