Area codes 937 and 326 are telephone

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s in the

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(NANP) assigned to a numbering plan area (NPA) that encompasses much of the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio, including

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and Springfield. Area code 937 was established in September 1996, in a split of area code 513. Area code 326 was added to the numbering plan area to form an overlay complex in March 2020.

History

Area code 937 was created in a split of Ohio's original NPA for the southwestern part of the state ( area code 513) on September 28, 1996. At the time, literature promoting the new area code took advantage of the fact that the digits of ''937'' spell out "YES" on a standard telephone keypad. As of April 2018, projections by the North American Numbering Plan Administrator expected that

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s ("central office codes") would be exhausted for area code 937 by the third quarter of 2020. For mitigation, on July 3, 2018, area code 326 was planned to overlay the 937 area. The area code translates to ''DAO'' as in "DAyton, Ohio", on the alphanumeric dial pad. Beginning August 10, 2019, subscribers were encouraged to practice ten-digit dialing for local calls within the area code. On February 8, 2020, traditional seven-digit dialing ended, and on March 8, 2020, area code 326 was activated.

Service area

The area codes serve

, its

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, Springfield, public (non- Defense Switched Network) communications at

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, a few outer eastern suburbs of

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, and most of southwest Ohio north and east of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. Communities served with a 2019 population greater than 10,000, and those that are

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s, include Beavercreek, Bellefontaine, Centerville, Clayton, Dayton, Eaton, Englewood,

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, Franklin, Georgetown, Greenville, Hillsboro, Huber Heights,

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, Marysville, Miamisburg, Piqua, Riverside, Sidney, Springboro, Springfield, Tipp City, Trotwood,

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, Urbana, Vandalia, West Carrollton, West Union, Wilmington and

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. Counties comprising the numbering plan area include all or parts of Adams,

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, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Darke, Greene, Hardin,

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, Logan, Madison,

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, Montgomery, Preble, Ross, Scioto, Shelby, Union and Warren.

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{{Coord, 39, 55, 20.3, N, 83, 49, 35.4, W, display=title 937 937 Telecommunications-related introductions in 1996 Telecommunications-related introductions in 2020

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