New York State and surrounding areas Area codes Jan 2024

Area code 607 is a telephone area code in the

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for the U.S. state of New York. It serves parts of its Southern Tier, which borders

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. The numbering plan area (NPA) was created in 1954 by combining a southern part of 315 and an eastern part of 716.

History

When the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) designed the first nationwide telephone numbering plan in North America in the late 1940s, area codes with the middle digit ''0'' were assigned only to numbering plan areas that comprised an entire state. Along with 507 in

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and 606 in

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, 607 was among the first such area codes to be created in an area code split. Area code 607 is not only one of only three area codes in the state of New York to have yet to be overlaid, along with 585 and 914, but is still the only area code in the state to have not needed exhaustion relief. Prior to October 2021, area code 607 had telephone numbers assigned for the central office code 988. In 2020, ''988'' was designated nationwide as a dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which created a conflict for exchanges that permit seven-digit dialing. This area code was therefore scheduled to transition to ten-digit dialing by October 24, 2021.

Service area

Counties

* Allegany County (part) * Broome County * Chemung County * Chenango County * Cortland County * Delaware County * Otsego County * Schoharie County (part) * Schuyler County * Steuben County * Sullivan County (part) * Tioga County * Tompkins County * Yates County

Cities

* Binghamton * Corning * Cortland *

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* Elmira * Hornell * Ithaca *

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* Oneonta * Waverly * Deposit * Owego * Vestal

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