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Area codes 706 and 762

 

706 is an area code in these Georgia areas:

    Agnes

    Alto

    Amer Fam Life Ins Busn Reply

    American Family Life Ins

    Amity

    Appling

    Armuchee

    Arnoldsville

    Athens

    Augusta

    Avera

    Baker-taylor

    Baldwin

    Barnett

    Bealwood

    Berzelia

    Big Canoe

    Bishop

    Blairsville

    Blue Ridge

    Blythe

    Boneville

    Bostwick

    Bowersville

    Bowman

    Braselton

    Buckhead

    Business Reply Mail

    Cadley

    Calhoun

    Camak

    Camp Rogers

    Campania

    Canon

    Carlton

    Carnesville

    Cataula

    Cave Spring

    Chatsworth

    Cherrylog

    Chickamauga

    Cisco

    Clarkesville

    Clayton

    Cleveland

    Cloudland

    Cohutta

    Col

    Colbert

    Cols

    Columbus

    Comer

    Commerce

    Coosa

    Cornelia

    Crandall

    Crawford

    Crawfordville

    Cusseta

    Dahlonega

    Dalton

    Danburg

    Danielsville

    Dawsonville

    Dearing

    Demorest

    Dewy Rose

    Dillard

    Double Branches

    East Ellijay

    Eastanollee

    Eatonton

    Edge Hill

    Elberton

    Ellerslie

    Ellijay

    Ellwood

    Epworth

    Eton

    Evans

    Fairmount

    Farmington

    Farrar

    Flintstone

    Forest Hills

    Fort Benning

    Fort Gordon

    Fort Oglethorpe

    Fortson

    Franklin

    Franklin Springs

    Fry

    Ft Gordon

    Ga Industrial Institute

    Gay

    Geneva

    Gibson

    Glenn

    Gough

    Gracewood

    Graysville

    Greensboro

    Greenville

    Grovetown

    Habersham

    Hamilton

    Harlem

    Hartwell

    Helen

    Hephzibah

    Hiawassee

    High Shoals

    Hillsboro

    Hogansville

    Homer

    Honora

    Hoschton

    Hull

    Ila

    Jasper

    Jefferson

    Jewell

    Junction City

    Kelly

    Keysville

    La Fayette

    Lafayette

    Lagrange

    Lakemont

    Lavonia

    Leah

    Leathersville

    Lexington

    Lincolnton

    Lindale

    Loco

    Lookout Mountain

    Lyerly

    Madison

    Manchester

    Martin

    Martinez

    Matthews

    Maxeys

    Maxim

    Mayfield

    Maysville

    Mc Caysville

    Mccaysville

    Meansville

    Menlo

    Mesena

    Midland

    Mineral Bluff

    Mitchell

    Monticello

    Morganton

    Mount Airy

    Mount Berry

    Mountain City

    Mountville

    Munnerlyn

    Navy Supply Corps School

    New Hope

    Nicholson

    Noah

    Norris

    North Georgia College

    Norwood

    Oakman

    Peach Orchard

    Pendergrass

    Penfield

    Penfld

    Philomath

    Phinizy

    Pine Mountain

    Pine Mountain Valley

    Plainville

    Pollards Corner

    Pumpkin Center

    Rabun Gap

    Ranger

    Rayle

    Reese

    Resaca

    Reynolds Plantation

    Ringgold

    Rising Fawn

    Rock Spring

    Rocky Face

    Rome

    Rossville

    Round Oak

    Royston

    Rutledge

    Sautee Nacoochee

    Shady Dale

    Shannon

    Sharon

    Shell Bluff

    Shiloh

    Shoals

    Siloam

    Silver Creek

    Sky Valley

    Sparta

    Stapleton

    Stephens

    Stovall

    Suches

    Sugar Valley

    Summerville

    Sybert

    Talbotton

    Talking Rock

    Tallulah Falls

    Talmo

    Tennga

    The Rock

    Thomaston

    Thomson

    Tiger

    Tignall

    Toccoa

    Toccoa Falls

    Travelers Insurance

    Trenton

    Trion

    Tunnel Hill

    Turnerville

    Union Point

    Upatoi

    Varnell

    Warm Springs

    Warrenton

    Washington

    Watkinsville

    Waverly Hall

    Waynesboro

    West Point

    White Plains

    Wildwood

    Wiley

    Winfield

    Winterville

    Woodbury

    Woodland

    Wrens

    Yatesville

    Young Harris



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In the NANP, area codes 706 and 762 cover all of northern Georgia outside of metro Atlanta. Until 1992 it was within area code 404, which was retained by the metro area.

This area code is split into two disconnected sections. The small section is west-central Georgia, in the region around Columbus. This is bordered by area code 334 to the west in Alabama, area code 478 to the east, area code 229 to the south, and metro Atlanta's 404, 678, 770, and future 470. It does not touch the landline area of 404, only the cellphone area.

The major section of 706 wraps around from Rome in northwest Georgia, east through the mountains past Dahlonega, meeting its narrowest point at Toccoa, then broadening south to Athens and Augusta. It touches Alabama's area code 256 on the far west, Tennessee's area code 423 on the northwest, North Carolina's area code 828 and Upstate South Carolina's area code 864 to the north-northeast, and midlands area code 803 to the east, and middle Georgia's 478 and metro Atlanta as above.

In June 2005, the Georgia Public Service Commission announced that 706 is nearly exhausted for new telephone exchange prefixes, and would be overlaid by a new area code. On June 24, the NANPA assigned area code 762 for this purpose, with 10-digit dialing to be allowed on September 3, and to be required on April 1 of 2007.

This is the third time that the GPSC has flip-flopped on its policy for deciding how new area codes would be assigned. Metro Atlanta's suburbs were split into 770, but then both 404 and 770 were overlaid with 678, and cellphones (originally 404 only) can now have any of those no matter where in the metro area. Southern Georgia was then split three ways instead of an overlay.

It is interesting to note that prior to 1990 area code 706 covered regions of Mexico.

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State of Georgia area codes: 229, 404, 470, 478, 678, 706, 762, 770, 912
North: 423
West: 256/938, 334 area code 706/762 nearly completely surrounds 470, 678 and 770 East: 864
South: 229, 478
State of Alabama Area Codes: 205, 251, 256, 334, 938
State of Tennessee Area Codes: 423, 615, 731, 865, 901, 931
State of North Carolina Area Codes: 252, 336, 704, 828, 910, 919, 980
State of South Carolina Area Codes: 803, 843, 864


Coordinates: 33°57′26″N 83°22′36″W / 33.95735°N 83.37680°W / 33.95735; -83.37680


 
 

 

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