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785 is an area code in these Kansas areas:

    Abilene

    Ada

    Agenda

    Agra

    Alexander

    Alma

    Almena

    Alta Vista

    Alton

    Antonino

    Arnold

    Assaria

    Atchison Topeka Santa Fe

    Athol

    Atwood

    Auburn

    Aurora

    Axtell

    Baileyville

    Baldwin

    Baldwin City

    Barnard

    Barnes

    Bavaria

    Bazine

    Beattie

    Beeler

    Bellaire

    Belleville

    Beloit

    Belvue

    Bendena

    Bennington

    Bern

    Berryton

    Beverly

    Bird City

    Bison

    Blaine

    Blue Cross

    Blue Rapids

    Bogue

    Bremen

    Brewster

    Brookville

    Brownell

    Bunker Hill

    Burdick

    Burlingame

    Burr Oak

    Cancer Fund Of America

    Carbondale

    Carlton

    Catharine

    Cawker City

    Cedar

    Centralia

    Chapman

    Circleville

    City Sewing Machine Co

    Clay Center

    Clayton

    Clifton

    Clyde

    Codell

    Colby

    Collyer

    Concordia

    Corning

    Council Grove

    Courtland

    Cuba

    Culver

    Damar

    Delavan

    Delia

    Delphos

    Denison

    Densmore

    Denton

    Dillons

    Dillons #1

    Dillons #3

    Dorrance

    Dover

    Downs

    Dresden

    Duluth

    Dwight

    Edmond

    Edson

    Ellis

    Ellsworth

    Emmett

    Enterprise

    Esbon

    Eskridge

    Eudora

    Everest

    Fairview

    Falun

    Formoso

    Fort Riley

    Fostoria

    Frankfort

    Ft Hays State

    Galatia

    Garnett

    Gaylord

    Gem

    Glade

    Glasco

    Glen Elder

    Goff

    Goodland

    Gorham

    Gove

    Grainfield

    Grandview Plaza

    Grantville

    Greeley

    Green

    Greenleaf

    Grinnell

    Gypsum

    Haddam

    Hanover

    Harlan

    Harveyville

    Havensville

    Hays

    Herington

    Herndon

    Hiawatha

    Highland

    Hill City

    Hollenberg

    Holton

    Holyrood

    Home

    Hope

    Horton

    Hoxie

    Hoyt

    Hunter

    Ionia

    Jamestown

    Jennings

    Jewell

    Junction City

    Kanopolis

    Kanorado

    Kansas Income Tax

    Kansas Lottery

    Kelly

    Kensington

    Kirwin

    Ks Dept Of Revenue Taxation

    Ks Dept Of Revenue Vehicles

    Ks State Bd Of Health

    La Crosse

    Lane

    Laurence

    Lawrence

    Lebanon

    Lecompton

    Lenora

    Leona

    Leonardville

    Levant

    Liebenthal

    Lillis

    Lincoln

    Lindsborg

    Linn

    Logan

    Long Island

    Longford

    Lorraine

    Lost Springs

    Louisville

    Lucas

    Ludell

    Luray

    Lwrnce

    Lyndon

    Mahaska

    Manchester

    Manhattan

    Mankato

    Maple Hill

    Marquette

    Marysville

    Material Distribution Ctr

    Mayetta

    Mc Cracken

    Mc Donald

    Mc Farland

    Mcdonald

    Mcfarland

    Melvern

    Menlo

    Mentor

    Meriden

    Milford

    Miltonvale

    Minneapolis

    Monument

    Morganville

    Morland

    Morrill

    Morrowville

    Munden

    Muscotah

    Narka

    Natoma

    Navarre

    Nekoma

    Ness City

    Netawaka

    New Almelo

    New Cambria

    Norcatur

    Norton

    Norway

    Oakhill

    Oakley

    Oberlin

    Ogallah

    Ogden

    Oketo

    Olsburg

    Onaga

    Oneida

    Osage City

    Osborne

    Oskaloosa

    Otis

    Ottawa

    Overbrook

    Ozawkie

    Palco

    Palmer

    Paradise

    Park

    Pauline

    Paxico

    Penokee

    Perry

    Pfeifer

    Phillipsburg

    Plainville

    Pomona

    Portis

    Powhattan

    Prairie View

    Princeton

    Quenemo

    Quinter

    Ramona

    Randall

    Randolph

    Ransom

    Rantoul

    Republic

    Reserve

    Rexford

    Rice

    Richmond

    Riley

    Robinson

    Rossville

    Roxbury

    Rush Center

    Russell

    Russell Spgs

    Russell Springs

    Sabetha

    Saint Francis

    Saint George

    Saint Marys

    Salina

    Scandia

    Schoenchen

    Scottsville

    Scranton

    Security Benefit Life

    Selden

    Seneca

    Severance

    Sharon Spgs

    Sharon Springs

    Silver Lake

    Simpson

    Smith Center

    Smolan

    Soldier

    Solomon

    Southwestern Bell

    St Francis

    St George

    St Marys

    Stockton

    Studley

    Stuttgart

    Summerfield

    Sylvan Grove

    Talmage

    Tecumseh

    Tescott

    Timken

    Tipton

    Topeka

    Troy

    University Of Kansas

    Utica

    V A Hospital

    Valley Falls

    Vassar

    Vermillion

    Victoria

    Vliets

    Wa Keeney

    Wakarusa

    Wakeeney

    Wakefield

    Waldo

    Walker

    Wallace

    Wamego

    Washington

    Waterville

    Wathena

    Waverly

    Webber

    Welda

    Wells

    Wellsville

    Weskan

    Westfall

    Westmoreland

    Westphalia

    Wetmore

    Wheaton

    Wheeler

    White City

    White Cloud

    Whiting

    Williamsburg

    Willis

    Wilsey

    Wilson

    Winona

    Woodbine

    Woodston

    Zurich



 
 
Wikipedia: area code 785

Area Code 785 is the area code for telephone exchanges in most of northern Kansas. The area code stretches from the Colorado state line on the west to the Missouri state line on the east, but does not include the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.

The largest city covered by the area code is the state capital of Topeka.

History of area codes in Kansas

Despite a relatively small population, Kansas was scheduled to receive two area codes under the original North American Numbering Plan proposal from the Bell Telephone Company in 1946. Originally, area codes would follow sequentially based on geography, and under the 1946 plan, Kansas would receive area codes 617 and 618.(1)

In October 1947, the final plan was adopted, and Kansas still had its two area codes, although the numbers had been radically altered from the original plan. The southern half of the state (Dodge City, Emporia, Garden City, Wichita) would receive 316, while the northern half (Kansas City, Topeka, Lawrence, Salina, Hays) would receive 913. All long-distance calls using area codes would not be implemented until late in 1951.

The north-south division is unusual for Kansas, a state which usually sees east-west geographic disputes. However, since the state's largest cities are in the eastern half (Kansas City, Topeka and Wichita), the north-south divide was necessary.

Kansas City's explosion necessitates a new code

The two area codes of Kansas remained constant for more than 40 years, but by the mid-1990s, the proliferation of cell phones, the population explosion in the Kansas City metropolitan area (most notably Johnson County), and deregulation due to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the exchanges for area code 913 were quickly being exhasuted.

Late in 1996, the Kansas Corporation Commission, which oversees telecommunications in the state, requested relief from the NANPA for the exchanges of area code 913, and on February 12, 1997, the NAPNA responded by splitting off most of northern Kansas from area code 913 into the new 785 area code. From July 20, 1997 through October 2, 1998, a period of permissive dialing was in use, allowing customers affected by the new area code to use either 913 or 785 when dialing long-distance. At 12:01 a.m. on October 3, 1998, the 785 area code became mandatory in the new calling area.

Major cities in area code 785

Boundaries of area code 785

The boundary between 785 and area code 620, which covers southern Kansas outside of the Wichita metropolitan area, runs from west to east roughly following a path along K-4 and K-96. The code boundary dips along I-135 in McPherson County and continues east to just north of Emporia in Lyon County along the Kansas Turnpike. At this point, area code 785 reaches its easternmost boundary with the current boundary for area code 913, although a small portion of the northeast corner of Kansas across the Missouri River from St. Joseph, Missouri is part of 785.

The area code covers the entire counties of Cheyenne, Rawlins, Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Smith, Jewell, Republic, Washington, Nemaha, Marshall, Brown, Doniphan, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, Graham, Rooks, Osborne, Mitchell, Lincoln, Cloud, Ottawa, Clay, Riley, Pottawatomie, Jackson, Wallace, Logan, Gove, Trego, Ness, Rush, Ellis, Russell, Ellsworth, Saline, Dickinson, Geary, Wabaunsee, Shawnee, Osage, Douglas and Jefferson, as well as portions of Atchison, Coffey, Morris and McPherson counties.

The counties of Anderson, Linn, Miami, Johnson, Wyandotte, and Leavenworth remain wholly in area code 913.

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State of Kansas area codes: 316, 620, 785, 913
North: 308, 402
West: 719, 970 area code 785 East: 816, 913
South: 620
State of Colorado area codes: 303, 719, 720, 970
State of Missouri area codes: 314, 417, 573, 636, 660, 816
State of Nebraska area codes: 308, 402

 
 

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