727

727 is an area code in these Florida areas:

Aripeka Bay Pines Bayonet Point Belleair Belleair Beach Belleair Bluffs Belleair Shores Clearwater Clearwater Beach Crossroads Crystal Beach Disston Plaza Dunedin Elfers Euclid Gulfport Holiday Home Shopping Hudson Indian Rocks Beach Indian Shores Johns Pass Kenneth City Largo Madeira Beach New Port Richey

North Redington Beach Odessa Oldsmar Ozona Palm Harbor Pasadena Pass A Grill Beach Pass A Grille Branch Pinellas Park Port Richey Redington Beach Redington Shores Safety Harbor Saint Pete Beach Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Bch Seminole Seven Springs South Pasadena St Pete Beach St Petersburg Beach Sunset Point Tarpon Springs Tierra Verde Treasure Island Trinity




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Area code 727 covers Pinellas County, Florida, including St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Pinellas Park, excluding the majority of Oldsmar, the western third of Pasco, including New Port Richey, Port Richey, and Holiday. For 43 years the 13 counties around Tampa Bay, including all suburbs like Sarasota, Ellenton and Port Charlotte were 813. In 1998, Pinellas and western part of Pasco County were split into area code 727. Areas south of Hillsborough (and Tampa Bay itself) became 941.

727 was originally going to be an overlay over 813. However, it was later switched to a split.

Oldsmar

When area code 813 was being split into the three area codes 813, 727, and 941, Oldsmar, being right on the county line between Pinellas and Hillsborough, was wired into the Tampa trunk, rather than Pinellas. When Oldsmar was being founded, nothing really existed between Clearwater and Oldsmar, so Oldsmar was closer to Tampa and its phone wiring ties into Tampa. The cost was prohibitive to rewire Oldsmar to tie it into Pinellas' trunk, so Oldsmar has the distinction of being the only location in Pinellas county that is 813.

State of Florida area codes: 239, 305, 321, 352, 386, 407, 561, 727, 754, 772, 786, 813, 850, 863, 904, 941, 954
	North: 352
West: Gulf of Mexico	Area Code 727	East: 813
	South: 941

See also

• List of Florida area codes

• List of NANP area codes
• North American Numbering Plan
• North American Numbering Plan Administration
• NANPA Area Code Map of Florida
• Whitepages Area code Map

References

• Florida's Area Code History

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