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Area code 859 was created in a split from area code 606 in 1999. When an area code is split, normal practice calls for the largest city to retain the old area code in order to minimize disruption to existing businesses and the community. Thus, conventional wisdom would have suggested that Lexington and Northern Kentucky should have retained 606 ...
The state of Kentucky is served by the following area codes: 270/364, which serve western Kentucky and the western half of South Central Kentucky. 502, which serves the Louisville and Frankfort areas. 606, which serves eastern Kentucky, including the Eastern Coalfield. 859, which serves the Lexington area and Northern Kentucky.
Area codes 270 and 364. Area codes 270 and 364 are telephone overlay area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Commonwealth of Kentucky 's western and south central counties. Area code 270 was assigned in a split of numbering plan area 502 in 1999. [1] Area code 364 was added to the same numbering plan area on March 3, 2014 ...
Notably, it was one of the first three area codes with "0" as the middle digit that were not assigned to an entire state; the others were area code 507 in Minnesota and area code 607 in New York. In 1999, most of the northwestern portion of the old 606 territory, including Lexington and Northern Kentucky, split off as area code 859 .
859. FIPS code. 21-46027. Website. www.lexingtonky.gov. Lexington is a consolidated city coterminous with and the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, making it the second-most populous city in Kentucky (after Louisville), the 14th-most populous city in the Southeast ...
Caldwell County. 033. Princeton. 1809. Livingston County. John Caldwell, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1804) 12,551. 347 sq mi (899 km 2) Calloway County.
Area code (s) 859, 502. The Lexington-Fayette metropolitan area is the 109th-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States. It was originally formed by the United States Census Bureau in 1950 and consisted solely of Fayette County until 1980 when surrounding counties saw increases in their population densities and the number ...
mnemonic: UKY — the University of Kentucky is in Lexington, the area's biggest city by population; 860: Northern and eastern Connecticut (Hartford, Bristol, Norwich, and northern and eastern Connecticut) August 28, 1995: split of 203; 2014: overlaid by 959; 861: Illinois (Peoria, Bloomington, Moline, Rock Island, Galesburg; west-central Illinois)