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Area code 863 is a telephone
Florida's Area Code HistoryMap of Area Code 863
Area codes in the United States, 863 Area codes in Florida, 863 1999 establishments in Florida {{Florida-geo-stub
Area code 863 is a telephone area code
A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints. Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, rea ...
in the North American Numbering Plan
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is an integrated telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean. This group is historically known as World Zone 1, World Numbering Zone ...
for a part of south-central Florida
Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic ...
. The numbering plan area comprises the Heartland, as well as Polk County in Central Florida
Central Florida is a Regions of the United States#Florida, region of the U.S. state of Florida. Different sources give different definitions for the region, but as its name implies it is usually said to comprise the central part of the state, in ...
. Some of the larger cities in the numbering plan area include Lakeland, Bartow, Winter Haven, Lake Wales, Sebring, Clewiston, Avon Park, Arcadia, Poinciana, and Okeechobee City.
History
Numbering plan area (NPA) 863 used to be part of NPA 305, which was originally the entire state of Florida. In 1953, the southwest Florida coast was split off witharea code 813
Area codes 813 and 656 are area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for the U.S. state of Florida in the city of Tampa, Florida, and its surrounding areas, such as Zephyrhills and Oldsmar. In 2022, due to exhaustion of central office pre ...
, while all of north Florida was split off with area code 904
Area codes 904 and 324 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for most of the First Coast (northeast) region of the U.S. state of Florida. The numbering plan area comprises most of the metropolitan area of Jacksonville. I ...
in 1965. The southeast portion retained 305. 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.
Service area
Numbering plan area 863 includes the total area of the following counties: Polk, Hardee, Highlands, Glades County, Florida, Glades, and Hendry County, Florida, Hendry. It also includes almost the entire areas of DeSoto County, Florida, De Soto and Okeechobee County, Okeechobee counties, and small parts of Hillsborough County, Florida, Hillsborough, and Saint Lucie County, Florida, St. Lucie counties. Area code 863 is Florida's first land-locked area code (not counting the northwest portion of area code 386).See also
*List of Florida area codes *List of North American Numbering Plan area codesReferences
External links
Florida's Area Code History
Area codes in the United States, 863 Area codes in Florida, 863 1999 establishments in Florida {{Florida-geo-stub