Area code 502 serves north central
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...
, primarily
Louisville
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.
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, its suburbs, and the state capital,
Frankfort. Its service area encompasses the following Kentucky counties (the boundary closely, but not exactly, tracks county lines):
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Anderson County
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Bullitt County
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Carroll County
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Franklin County
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Henry County
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Jefferson County
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Nelson County
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Oldham County
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Owen County
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Scott County
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Shelby County
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Spencer County
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Trimble County
Parts of
Hardin and
Meade counties are also served by this area code, specifically:
*The
Fort Knox
Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold res ...
Army
An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...
installation, located primarily in Hardin County, also spreads into Meade, and Bullitt counties.
*The city of
Muldraugh, which straddles the Meade–Hardin County line and is surrounded by Fort Knox.
*The city of
West Point
The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known Metonymy, metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academies, United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a f ...
in Hardin County and its surrounding area, which is separated from the rest of Hardin County by Fort Knox.
Besides Louisville and Frankfort, other cities within the 502 area code boundary include
Georgetown,
Shelbyville, and
Bardstown. Georgetown is a long-distance call to other cities in the 502 area code, but is a free local call to
Lexington, which is in the
859 area code.
The area code was one of the first established in October 1947, initially covering the entire state of Kentucky. The eastern half of the state split off as
area code 606
Area code 606 is a telephone area code serving the eastern half of south-central and all of the eastern part of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Cities and towns in the area code include Ashland, Morehead, Hazard, Middlesboro, Somerset, Stanfor ...
in 1954, while the western half split off as
270 in 1999.
See also
References
External links
Map of the 502 Area Code
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Telecommunications-related introductions in 1947
1947 establishments in Kentucky
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