USA telephone area code map - North Carolina

Area codes 919 and 984 are telephone

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(NANP) for all or parts of eleven counties in the east-central area of the U.S. state of

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. They service the cities of Raleigh, Durham, Cary, and Chapel Hill/ Carrboro, and the surrounding suburban areas of the Research Triangle metropolitan area, as well as the outlying towns and nearby rural areas of

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to the north, Sanford to the south, Goldsboro to the southeast, and Mebane to the west. Area code 919 was created in 1954 in a split of numbering plan area 704, the original area code serving the entire state. After successive splits in the 1990s, the final numbering plan area received a second area code, 984, in 2012 to form an

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History

When area codes were first assigned in 1947, all of North Carolina was assigned

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. In 1954, the eastern and central portions of the state—everything from Winston-Salem eastward—split off as area code 919. 704 was reduced to Charlotte and all points west. Despite North Carolina's growth in the second half of the 20th century, this configuration remained in place for 39 years. In 1993, the western and southern portions of the numbering plan area, including Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Fayetteville and Wilmington, were split off to form

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. However, a sliver of Alamance County around Mebane stayed in 919. This was because portions of eastern Mebane are in Orange County, almost all of which stayed in 919. BellSouth drew the new 919-910 boundary in order to preserve seven-digit dialing throughout Mebane. In 1998, 919 was cut back to its present size when the northeastern portion, including Rocky Mount, Greenville and

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, was split off to form

area code 252 Area code 252 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The numbering plan area comprises the municipalities of Kinston, North Carolina, Kinston, Elizabet ...

. Area code 919 was initially slated for overlay with area code 984 in 2001, but due to the implementation of

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, the overlay was deferred when the supply of numbers was deemed sufficient for the near term. Within a decade, however, the Triangle's continued growth and the proliferation of cellular telephones and pagers meant that the implementation of 984 could no longer be delayed. In September 2011, the North Carolina Utilities Commission commenced the implementation, with a permissive dialing period for local calls from October 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012, when

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became mandatory across the Triangle region. The effective date of the overlay was April 30, 2012. As a result of the ten-digit dialing conversion, incorrect dialing of 919 by customers resulted in thousands of wrong number calls to 9-1-1. Despite the Triangle's continued growth, 919/984 is far from exhaustion. Projections in 2019 have no exhaust date for 919/984, meaning that the Triangle will not need another area code for at least 30 years.

Service area

;Counties: * Alamance (small portion in northeast, most of county is in 336/743) * Chatham (except small portion in northwest which is in 336/743) * Duplin (north-central portion, most of county is in 910) * Durham * Franklin (except portion in northwest, which is in 252) * Granville * Harnett (most of west and north is 919/984, rest of county is 910/472) * Johnston * Orange (except a sliver along the northern border, which is in 336/743) *

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(small portion in northeast, most of county is in 336/743) * Wake * Wayne (except sliver in southeast which is in 252) * Lee ;Major cities and towns: * Raleigh * Durham * Cary * Chapel Hill * Apex * Carrboro * Clayton * Fuquay-Varina * Garner * Goldsboro * Holly Springs * Mebane * Morrisville * Sanford * Smithfield

References

{{Area code box, State=NC , This=919 / 984 , N= 434 , S= 910 , E= 252 , W= 336 / 743 , S1=VA 1954 establishments in North Carolina 2011 establishments in North Carolina 919 919 Telecommunications-related introductions in 1954

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