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It’s 919 Day in Raleigh

Sept. 19 is 919 Day — here’s how Oak City + the Triangle got the area code.

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Today is 919 Day (Sept. 19, get it?). We’re sharing the history of Raleigh’s area code that’s sure to get you recognized as a Raleighite wherever you go.

On Jan. 1, 1954, the 919 area code was first introduced for the Central and Eastern regions of NC, but in 1998, the 919 code was split and numbers serving the Eastern part of the state — near Rocky Mount and Greenville — were updated to the 252 area code.

As the Raleigh metro area continued to grow, officials identified the fact that we would eventually run out of phone numbers. The 984 area code was first proposed in 2001 to accommodate increasing cell phone use + a significant population boom, however implementation was deferred (thanks to number pooling). The 919 area code now covers roughly 733,736 phone numbers across Raleigh and beyond.

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