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Area codes 540 and 826 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. State of Virginia. Areas included are the outer portions of Northern Virginia/D.C Area along with areas in or around the Shenandoah Valley, Blue Ridge Mountains, New River Valley, and the Roanoke 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. The independent cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park and the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, (Eastern) Loudon County and Prince William along with a very small portion of Fauquier County and Stafford County remained in the area code 703, while the rest of the area was reassigned to the 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, with an in-service date of May 14, 2022. This made ten-digit dialing mandatory in the overlay area.




Service area


The numbering plan area includes the communities of
Bedford,
Berryville,
Blacksburg,
Buchanan,
Buena Vista,
Cave Spring,
Clifton Forge,
Covington,
Fincastle,
Floyd,
Fredericksburg,
Front Royal,
Greenville,
Harrisonburg,
Hot Springs,
Lexington,
Louisa,
Luray,
Madison,
Mineral,
Orange,
Pulaski,
Radford,
Roanoke,
Rocky Mount,
Salem,
Staunton,
Warrenton,
Little Washington,
Waynesboro, and
Winchester.
It serves the counties of
Alleghany,
Augusta,
Bath,
Botetourt,
Clarke,
Craig,
Culpeper,
Fauquier,
Floyd,
Franklin,
Frederick,
Giles,
Highland,
King George,
Louisa,
Madison,
Montgomery,
Orange,
Page,
Pulaski,
Rappahannock,
Roanoke,
Rockingham,
Rockbridge,
Shenandoah,
Spotsylvania,
Stafford, and
Warren, as well as portions of Bedford County, and a small portion of Albemarle County consisting of Afton and Greenwood 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


NANPA area code map of Virginia
List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 540 Area Code

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