Area code 850

850 is an area code in these Florida areas:

Alford Alligator Point Altha Apalachicola Argyle Bagdad Baker Bascom Bellview Blountstown Bonifay Brent Bristol Bruce Campbellton Cantonment Carrabelle Caryville Centerville Century Chattahoochee Chipley City Of Pensacola Clarksville Cottondale Crawfordville Crestview Cypress Defuniak Springs Destin Duke Field Afs East Point Eastpoint Eastside Ebro Educ Dev Ctr Corresp Eglin Eglin Afb Elgin Elgin Afb Fl State Lot Florida A And M University Florida State Lottery Florida State University Fort Walton Beach Fountain Freeport Ft Walton Beach Gonzalez Graceville Grand Ridge Greensboro Greenville Greenwood Gretna Gulf Breeze Havana Holt Hosford Hurlburt Field Jay Kinard Lamont Lanark Village Laurel Hill Lee Lloyd Lynn Haven Madison

Malone Marianna Mary Esther Mc David Mexico Beach Miccosukee Midway Milligan Milton Miramar Beach Molino Monticello Mossy Head Mount Pleasant Mt Pleasant Navarre Navarre Beach Niceville Noma Ochlockonee Bay Overstreet Pace Pace Contract Panacea Panama City Panama City Beach Paxton Pensacola Pensacola Beach Perdido Key Perry Pinetta Point Washington Ponce De Leon Port Saint Joe Quincy Rosemary Beach Saint George Island Saint Marks Saint Teresa Salem Santa Rosa Beach Shady Grove Shalimar Sneads Sopchoppy Southport St Teresa Sumatra Sunny Hills Tallahassee Telogia Tiger Point Tyndall A F B Tyndall Afb Univ Of West Florida Valparaiso Vernon W Panama City Beach Wacissa Wakulla Springs Walnut Hill Wausau West Beach Station West Panama City Beach Westville Wewahitchka Woodville Youngstown




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Area code 850 is in use for the Florida Panhandle, USA. [1] Area code 904 was used for the entire part of northern Florida from 11 July 1965, when 904 split from 305, until 904 itself was split in the mid-1990s. Permissive dialing for area code 850 began June 23, 1997 and mandatory dialing began March 23, 1998.

Contents 1 Original Plan 2 Implemented Plan 3 Cities served by the 850 area code 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

Original Plan

Area code 850 was originally intended to be the relief code used in the 1995 split of the 904 area code. The Jacksonville, Panama City, Pensacola, and Tallahassee LATAs were to retain 904 while the Daytona Beach and Gainesville LATAs changed to 850. This plan was scrapped in favor of a plan that moved only the Gainesville LATA to a new area code, this time 352 (FLA on the telephone keypad) and kept the Daytona Beach LATA in 904 along with the rest of northern Florida. The reason for changing from 850 to 352 was a potential dialing conflict with the 407-850 office code and some rate centers in the Gainesville LATA with 7-digit EAS local calling into the 407 area code. Political pressure from the tourism industry in Daytona Beach resulted in that area being kept in the 904 area code.

Implemented Plan

In 1996, the Florida Public Service Commission had planned a 3-way split to relieve the exhausting 904 area code to take place in 1997. The Jacksonville LATA would move to a proposed 234 area code while the Daytona Beach LATA would change to the 386 area code. The Pensacola, Panama City, and Tallahassee LATAs would have retained the 904 area code. Outcry from the public and business community in the Jacksonville region as well as opposition from NANPA and the FCC forced the Florida PSC to change course and adopt the plan that was ultimately implemented with Pensacola, Tallahassee, and Panama City moving to 850 and Jacksonville and Daytona Beach retaining 904.

Cities served by the 850 area code

• Crestview
• DeFuniak Springs
• Destin
• Fort Walton Beach
• Gulf Breeze
• Marianna
• Milton
• Monticello
• Navarre
• Niceville
• Panama City
• Pensacola
• Tallahassee (State capital)
• Valparaiso

See also

• List of Florida area codes
• List of NANP area codes

References

• Florida's Area Code History

External links

• NANPA Area Code Map of Florida
• List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 850 Area Code

State of Florida area codes: 239, 305, 321, 352, 386, 407, 561, 727, 754, 772, 786, 813, 850, 863, 904, 941, 954
	North: 229, 251, 334
West: 251	area code 850	East: 352, 386
	South: Gulf of Mexico
State of Alabama Area Codes: 205, 251, 256, 334, 938
State of Georgia area codes: 229, 404, 470, 478, 678, 706, 762, 770, 912

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