Area Code 270 Information

State: KY - Kentucky
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Area code 270 presently serves the U.S. state of Kentucky's western counties. Area code 270 was split off of area code 502 in April 1999. In September and October 2006, state officials announced that the area code would run out of numbers in late 2007. On May 31, 2007, the Kentucky PSC announced that 270 will be split along the Pennyrile Parkway, with the newly-created area code, still to be announced, serving western Kentucky, and area code 270 serving west-central Kentucky. This announcement indicated that permissive dialing of the new area code would begin on April 1, 2008, with mandatory dialing to the new area code on October 1, 2008. Among the cities that will remain in the 270 area code are Bowling Green, Owensboro, and Elizabethtown. Cities that will be ceded to the 364 area code include Madisonville, Hopkinsville, Henderson, Murray, and Paducah.

Related Area Codes: 502


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