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Area codes 304 and 681 Area codes 304 and 681 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the entirety of the U.S. state of West Virginia. The numbering plan area was established in October 1947 with area code 304, as one of the eighty-si ...

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Area code 434 Image:Area code 434.png, The area colored red indicates the geographical region of Virginia served by area code 434 poly 64 0 54 9 40 24 28 57 13 58 12 77 31 106 40 109 48 106 68 123 75 117 96 127 99 121 126 122 134 110 126 103 137 78 156 78 17 ...

poly 0 181 0 161 43 127 67 145 73 135 87 145 90 153 87 159 110 170 112 180 Area code 276 #poly 273 38 264 44 266 58 276 58 279 67 285 69 283 77 291 84 252 108 230 86 214 87 184 127 188 136 184 140 177 140 162 168 149 165 136 170 126 166 111 171 87 158 88 152 85 144 93 147 93 141 123 143 131 131 124 125 135 98 155 98 175 62 195 62 214 22 247 34 261 28 265 32 Area code 540 poly 292 84 252 109 235 92 232 127 240 125 242 137 246 135 265 144 251 155 253 162 267 166 274 162 279 165 287 159 288 156 305 166 314 167 317 161 326 160 323 151 342 148 325 122 330 115

Area code 804 Image:Area code 804.png, The area colored red indicates the geographical region of Virginia served by area code 804 poly 64 0 54 9 40 24 28 57 13 58 12 77 31 106 40 109 48 106 68 123 75 117 96 127 99 121 126 122 134 110 126 103 137 78 156 78 177 ...

poly 272 39 263 44 267 56 276 59 281 67 287 70 292 54

Area codes 571 and 703 File:Area code 571.png, 400px, alt=area codes 571 and 703, The red-colored area is the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia served by area code 703 and its overlay code 571. poly 391 103 368 103 343 148 324 152 325 160 317 164 309 174 ...

desc top-left Area codes 540 and 826 are 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 ...

s in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the north-western region of the U.S. State of Virginia, including the

Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley () is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The valley is bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the west by the eastern front of the Ridge- ...

, the Roanoke metropolitan area, the northern and eastern parts in Virginia of the New River Valley, and the outermost parts of the Washington metropolitan area. The Virginia State Corporation Commission authorized the addition of 826 to the numbering plan area for implementation in May 2022.

History

Area code 540 was established on July 15, 1995, when numbering plan area 703 was divided.New '540' Area Code Announced
. ''Associated Press''. The Daily News Leader (Staunton, Virginia). July 7, 1994. p. A3. Arlington County, Alexandria, Fairfax County, Fairfax City,

Falls Church Falls Church is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,658. Falls Church is included in the Washington metropolitan area. Taking its name from The Falls Church, an 18th-century Churc ...

, Prince William County, Manassas, Manassas Park, Eastern Loudoun County, Northern Stafford County, and a very small portion of Fauqier County remained in area code 703, while the rest of the area was reassigned to area code 540. Due to the continued growth of telecommunication services in the area, it was necessary to split 540 as well. On September 1, 2001, the farthest western region of Virginia was established as a separate numbering plan area with area code 276. The pool of central office codes for the area code was projected to exhaust in 2022. For relief, the Virginia State Corporation Commission approved a plan in June 2020 to add area code 826 to form an all-services overlay. Implementation of the overlay was projected to be on May 14, 2022 and was implemented as proposed on that date. This made ten-digit dialing mandatory in the overlay area, with recorded messages passed on to callers dialling the old method.

Service area

The numbering plan area includes the communities of Bedford, Berryville, Blacksburg,

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, Buena Vista, Cave Spring, Clifton Forge,

Covington Covington may refer to: People * Covington (surname) Places United Kingdom * Covington, Cambridgeshire * Covington, South Lanarkshire United States * Covington, Georgia * Covington, Indiana * Covington, Kentucky, the largest American cit ...

, Fincastle, Floyd, Fredericksburg, Front Royal, Greenville, Harrisonburg,

Hot Springs A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circ ...

, Lexington, Louisa,

Luray Luray may refer to: * Luray, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in the Eure-et-Loir ''département'', France * Luray, Indiana * Luray, Kansas * Luray, Missouri * Luray, Ohio * Luray, South Carolina Luray is a town in Hampton County, South Carolina, United ...

, Madison, Mineral, Orange,

Pulaski Pulaski may refer to: Places * Pulaski Heights, a section of the city of Little Rock, Arkansas * Pulaski Shoal, an underwater landform west of the Florida Keys * Pulaski, Georgia, a town * Pulaski Square, one of the "Squares of Savannah" in t ...

Radford Radford may refer to: Places England * Radford, Coventry, West Midlands * Radford, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire * Radford, Plymstock, Devon *Radford, Oxfordshire * Radford, Somerset *Radford, Worcestershire *Radford Cave in Devon *Radford Semele, ...

, Roanoke, Rocky Mount,

Salem Salem may refer to: Places Canada Ontario * Bruce County ** Salem, Arran–Elderslie, Ontario, in the municipality of Arran–Elderslie ** Salem, South Bruce, Ontario, in the municipality of South Bruce * Salem, Dufferin County, Ontario, part ...

, Staunton, Warrenton, Little Washington, Waynesboro, and

Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...

. It serves the counties of Alleghany, Augusta,

Bath Bath may refer to: * Bathing, immersion in a fluid ** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body ** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe * Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities Plac ...

, Botetourt, Clarke, Craig, Culpeper, Fauquier, Floyd, Franklin, Frederick, Giles, Highland,

King George King George may refer to: People Monarchs ;Bohemia *George of Bohemia (1420-1471, r. 1458-1471), king of Bohemia ;Duala people of Cameroon *George (Duala king) (late 18th century), king of the Duala people ;Georgia * George I of Georgia (998 or ...

, Louisa, Madison, Montgomery, Orange, Page,

Rappahannock Rappahannock may refer to: Education *Rappahannock Academy & Military Institute (1813–1873), a school in Caroline County, Virginia *Rappahannock Community College, a two-year college located in Glenns and Warsaw, Virginia *Rappahannock County ...

, Roanoke, Rockingham, Rockbridge, Shenandoah, Spotsylvania,

Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in t ...

, and Warren, as well as portions of Bedford County, and a small portion of Albemarle County consisting of Afton and

Greenwood Green wood is unseasoned wood. Greenwood or Green wood may also refer to: People * Greenwood (surname) Settlements Australia * Greenwood, Queensland, a locality in the Toowoomba Region * Greenwood, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth C ...

that is in a LATA served by Verizon landline service rather than CenturyLink. It also partially serves western Loudoun County, whereas most of the county is in the numbering plan area 703/571.

References

External links

List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 540 Area Code
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540 __NOTOC__ Year 540 ( DXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Iustinus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1293 ''Ab urbe condita''). The deno ...