Area code 714

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North American area code 714 is a California telephone area code which was split from area code 213 as a flash-cut sometime during 1951. It encompasses northern Orange County and a portion of Los Angeles County (including a portion of the city of La Mirada) and portions of Chino Hills in San Bernardino County.

Cities in the 714 area code include Tustin, Placentia, Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, Fullerton, Orange, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Yorba Linda, Brea and most of Huntington Beach.

The 714 area code once included most of Southern California, generally south and east of Los Angeles, extending to the Arizona and Nevada state lines to the east, and south as far as the Mexican border (what is now area codes 619, 760 and 909, 951 and 858). It experienced several splits, the first of which moved San Diego County, Imperial County and the desert areas of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties into area code 619 on November 6, 1982. It was again split, moving eastern Los Angeles and the Inland Empire areas of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties into area code 909 on November 14, 1992. On April 18, 1998 the southern and western cities of Orange County were split from 714, creating area code 949.

714 now covers northern and western Orange County (except for La Habra, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach and the western portions of La Palma and Huntington Beach, which have always been in the same area code as Long Beach—currently the 562 area code). This is probably because at the time those splits first occurred, while most cities in Southern California were provided primary local telephone service from what was then Pacific Bell (now AT&T), the cities listed above were served by GTE (now Verizon) which is the primary telephone provider for Long Beach. The 714 area code also contains the Carbon Canyon area of Chino Hills which is in San Bernardino County.

Today, four cities "straddle" the 714 and 949 area codes: Costa Mesa, Irvine, Santa Ana, and Tustin.

714 has almost run out of numbers, and area code 657 will soon go into service in order to relieve it. On Thursday, September 20, 2007, the California Public Utilities Commission approved an overlay of the whole 714 area with the new 657 area code. [1][2]

Permissive 1+ ten-digit dialing within the existing 714 region will start no later than February 23, 2008. Mandatory 1+ ten-digit dialing within 714 will take effect on August 23, 2008, and the new 657 overlay area code first taking effect with new numbers a month later, on September 23, 2008. [3]

Contents 1 List of cities in the 714 area code 1.1 Los Angeles County 1.2 Orange County 1.3 San Bernardino County 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] List of cities in the 714 area code

[edit] Los Angeles County

• La Mirada
• Cerritos

[edit] Orange County

• Anaheim
• Brea
• Buena Park
• Costa Mesa
• Cypress
• Fountain Valley
• Fullerton
• Garden Grove
• Huntington Beach
• Irvine
• La Habra
• La Palma
• Midway City
• Modjeska Canyon
• Orange Park Acres
• Orange
• Placentia
• Santa Ana
• Santiago Canyon
• Silverado
• Stanton
• Tustin Foothills
• Tustin
• Villa Park
• Westminster
• Yorba Linda

[edit] San Bernardino County

• Chino Hills

[edit] See also

• List of California area codes
• List of NANP area codes
• North American Numbering Plan

[edit] External links

• NANPA Area Code Map of California

State of California Area Codes: 209, 213, 310, 323, 408, 415, 424, 510, 530, 559, 562, 619, 626, 650, 657 (upcoming), 661, 707, 714, 760, 805, 818, 831, 858, 909, 916, 925, 949, 951
	North: 626, 909
West: 310 (offshore islands), 562, 808	area code 714	East: 909, 951
	South: 949, Pacific Ocean
State of Hawaii Area Code: 808