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503: The northwestern corner of Oregon, including Portland and its metropolitan area, Salem and other cities 541: All of Oregon outside the northwestern corner, including Eugene. 971: An overlay of area code 503. Until 2008, 971 was a concentrated overlay, meaning it was only present in some parts of the 503 area.
Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]
In the initial configuration of the nationwide telephone numbering plan designed by AT&T in 1947, [1] the state of Oregon was assigned a single area code, 503. Despite Oregon's growth in the second half of the twentieth century, particularly in the Willamette Valley (Portland and Eugene), this remained so for 48 years, making Oregon one of the largest states by area with a single area code.
Area codes 541 and 458 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for most of the U.S. state of Oregon, excluding only the northwestern corner of the state. The service area includes the cities of Eugene , Springfield , Corvallis , Albany , Medford , Bend , Ashland , Klamath Falls , The Dalles , Burns , Lakeview , and ...
Before TD Collins died in 1914, he owned, along with others, a large number of sawmills in the Tionesta Valley of Pennsylvania, over 60,000 acres (240 km 2) of timberland, the Tionesta Manufacturing Company, the Nebraska Box Mill, the Mayburg Chemical Plant, plus over 100 miles (160 km) of logging railroad, 41 miles (66 km) of main line, 25 locomotives, several oil companies, and a bank.
North Pacific Group (NOR PAC), founded in 1948 as North Pacific Lumber Company, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, was a major wholesaler and distributor of wood products, building materials, steel and agriculture commodities in the United States. Annual sales exceeded $1.2 billion.
The company began in 1957 in Klamath Falls, Oregon as Klamath Hardwoods, establishing its first hardwood veneer plant with 43 employees. In 1963, it was acquired by Columbia Plywood Corp . In 1966, it acquired additional facilities in Presque Isle, Maine and Newport, Vermont .
Roseburg Forest Products is a privately owned wood–products company based in Springfield, Oregon. Founded in 1936, the company had approximately 3,000 employees and revenues of nearly US$1 billion in 2012. [1] [2] Roseburg Forest Products operates mills throughout Western Oregon, and continues to be held by the founding Ford family.