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Area code 727 covers Pinellas County, Florida (including St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and Pinellas Park, among many other municipalities, but excluding the majority of Oldsmar), and the western third of
Florida's Area Code History
Area code 727 covers Pinellas County, Florida (including St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and Pinellas Park, among many other municipalities, but excluding the majority of Oldsmar), and the western third of Pasco County
Pasco County is located on the west central coast of the U.S. state of Florida. According to the 2020 census, the population was 561,691. Its county seat is Dade City, and its largest city is Zephyrhills. The county is named after Samuel Pasco ...
(including Port Richey
Port Richey is a city in Pasco County, Florida, United States. It is a suburban city included in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
In 1883, Aaron M. Richey arrived from St. Joseph, Missouri, and se ...
, New Port Richey
New Port Richey is a city in Pasco County, Florida, United States. It is a suburban city included in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was counted at 16,728 in the 2020 census.
History
B ...
, and Holiday
A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced. Generally, holidays are intended to allow individuals to celebrate or commemorate an event or tra ...
). For 43 years, the 13 counties around Tampa Bay, including cities such as Sarasota, Ellenton, and Port Charlotte were in area code 813
Area code 813 is an area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the city of Tampa, Florida, and surrounding areas such as Zephyrhills, Florida, Zephyrhills and Oldsmar, Florida, Oldsmar.
Due to complete exhaustion of central office ...
. In 1998, Pinellas County and the western part of Pasco County were split into area code 727.
727 was going to be introduced in an overlay plan, to overlay 813. At the time, overlays were a new concept and since overlays result in mixing area codes within the same area (issuing the new code to new numbers) requiring 10-digit dialing, they were often met with public resistance. GTE (now part of Frontier Communications), the dominant carrier in most of the Tampa Bay Area, switched the proposal to a split plan.
The split largely followed county lines, with the notable exception of Oldsmar, most of which stayed in 813. Oldsmar's trunk is wired into the Tampa line, and it would have been too expensive for GTE to rewire it.
See also
* List of Florida area codes *List of NANP area codes
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) divides the territories of its members into geographic numbering plan areas (NPAs). Each NPA is identified by one or more numbering plan area codes (''NPA codes'', or ''area codes''), consisting of three di ...
* North American Numbering Plan
References
Florida's Area Code History
External links
727
727 may refer to:
* Boeing 727, an airliner
* AD 727, a year
* 727 BC, a year
* 727 (number), a number
* "727", a song by The Box Tops from the album '' Cry Like a Baby''
* '' 7/27'', a 2016 album by Fifth Harmony
* Area code 727, for telephon ...
727
727 may refer to:
* Boeing 727, an airliner
* AD 727, a year
* 727 BC, a year
* 727 (number), a number
* "727", a song by The Box Tops from the album '' Cry Like a Baby''
* '' 7/27'', a 2016 album by Fifth Harmony
* Area code 727, for telephon ...
Pinellas County, Florida
Pasco County, Florida
1998 establishments in Florida
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