Editing Area code 763

{{Short description|Area code in Minnesota, United States}}
[[file:MN Area Codes Metro.png|thumb|350px|Metropolitan area codes with 763 in orange.]]
[[file:MN Area Codes 2024.svg|thumb|350px|Minnesota area codes.]]
'''Area code 763''' is a telephone [[area code]] in the [[North American Numbering Plan]] for the northwestern suburbs of [[Minneapolis-St. Paul]], [[Minnesota]], including cities such as [[Plymouth, Minnesota|Plymouth]], [[Maple Grove, Minnesota|Maple Grove]], and [[Brooklyn Park, Minnesota|Brooklyn Park]]. It was created in 2000 along with [[area code 952]] (southwest suburbs) when they were carved out of [[area code 612]], which remained assigned only for the city of [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapolis]] and a few inner-ring locales.<ref name="pl200">{{cite web
|url=https://www.nationalnanpa.com/pdf/pl-nanp-200.pdf
|title=Planning Letter 200: North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA)
|publisher=NANPA
|date=1999-11-29
|access-date=2023-08-08
}}</ref>

763 is bordered on the north and west by [[area code 320]], on the east by [[area code 651]], and by area codes 952 and 612 to the south and southeast respectively.

==History==
When the [[American Telephone and Telegraph Company]] (AT&T) created the first nationwide [[telephone numbering plan]] for [[Operator Toll Dialing]] in 1947 to automate and speed the connection of long-distance calls, the United States and Canada were divided into 86 geographic [[numbering plan area]]s (NPAs) and assigned the [[original North American area codes]].  Minnesota was divided into a south-eastern area including the Twin Cities with [[area code 612]] and the rest of the state in the south-west and north with [[area code 218]].<ref name="mabbs1947">{{cite journal |last1=Mabbs |first1=Ralph |title=Nation-Wide Operator Toll Dialing—the Coming Way |journal=Bell Telephone Magazine |date=Winter 1947–1948 |volume=26 |issue=4 |page=181 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_bell-telephone-magazine_winter-1947-1948_26_4/page/n5/ |access-date=2023-08-08}}</ref> In 1954, the southern half of 612 was designated a separate numbering plan area with [[area code 507]] as the third area code for the state, while 612 was rotated out to cover most of central Minnesota as well as the Twin Cities.

Due to the proliferation of cell phones and pagers in the 1990s, the Twin Cities were running out of central office codes for expansion of the numbering plan. In 1996, 612 was divided to create [[area code 651]] for [[St. Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul]] and the area east of the Twin Cities. In 1998, the northwestern part of the NPA was split off to [[area code 320]]. To mitigate continuing exhaustion, the Minneapolis Public Utilities Commission approved a three-way area code split of the remainder of NPA 612, for which the North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA) assigned new area codes 763 and 952 on November 29, 1999.<ref name="pl200"/>

The [[area code split]] took effect on February 27, 2000, and placed the following communities, all suburbs to the north and northwest of Minneapolis, into the 763 numbering plan area, including Brooklyn Center, Fridley, Mounds View, Blaine, Coon Rapids, Circle Pines, Lexington, St. Francis, Isanti, Cambridge, Princeton, Elk River, Becker, Monticello, Buffalo, Waverly, Delano, Medina, Plymouth and Golden Valley.<ref name="pl200"/>

Despite the three-way split of NPA 612, most of the Twin Cities remained a single rate center shared between all area codes.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.nationalnanpa.com/pdf/newsletters/NANPA_3Q10.pdf
|title=Did you know?
|publisher=NANPA
|work=NANPA News
|page=2
|date=2010-09-02
|access-date=2023-08-08
}}</ref> Likewise, several central offices have their single prefix assignment shared in multiple area codes,<ref name="pl200"/> so that the area codes split along municipal, rather than exchange area boundaries. As a result, the Twin Cities comprise one of the largest local calling areas in the United States; with a few exceptions, no long-distance charges are applied from one part of the Twin Cities to another.  Portions of area codes 320 and 507 are local calls from the Twin Cities as well.

Despite the Twin Cities' rapid growth, 763 is nowhere near exhaustion. The April 2023 NANPA projections estimate an exhaust date of 2075.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nationalnanpa.com/reports/2023-1NPAExhaustProjectionsFinal.pdf|title=2023-1 NRUF and NPA Exhaust Analysis|publisher=NANPA|website=nationalnanpa.com|date=2023-04-01|access-date=2023-08-08}}</ref>

==Service area==
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*[[Albertville, Minnesota|Albertville]]
*[[Andover, Minnesota|Andover]]
*[[Anoka, Minnesota|Anoka]]
*[[Becker, Minnesota|Becker]]
*[[Big Lake, Minnesota|Big Lake]]
*[[Blaine, Minnesota|Blaine]]
*[[Brooklyn Center, Minnesota|Brooklyn Center]]
*[[Brooklyn Park, Minnesota|Brooklyn Park]]
*[[Buffalo, Minnesota|Buffalo]]
*[[Cambridge, Minnesota|Cambridge]]
*[[Champlin, Minnesota|Champlin]]
*[[Circle Pines, Minnesota|Circle Pines]]
*[[Columbia Heights, Minnesota|Columbia Heights]]
*[[Coon Rapids, Minnesota|Coon Rapids]]
*[[Corcoran, Minnesota|Corcoran]]
*[[Crystal, Minnesota|Crystal]]
*[[Dayton, Minnesota|Dayton]]
*[[Delano, Minnesota|Delano]]
*[[East Bethel, Minnesota|East Bethel]]
*[[Elk River, Minnesota|Elk River]]
*[[Fridley, Minnesota|Fridley]]
*[[Golden Valley, Minnesota|Golden Valley]]
*[[Greenfield, Minnesota|Greenfield]]
*[[Ham Lake, Minnesota|Ham Lake]]
*[[Hanover, Minnesota|Hanover]]
*[[Hilltop, Minnesota|Hilltop]]
*[[Independence, Minnesota|Independence]]
*[[Isanti, Minnesota|Isanti]]
*[[Lino Lakes, Minnesota|Lino Lakes]]
*[[Maple Grove, Minnesota|Maple Grove]]
*[[Maple Plain, Minnesota|Maple Plain]]
*[[Medicine Lake, Minnesota|Medicine Lake]]
*[[Medina, Minnesota|Medina]]
*[[Monticello, Minnesota|Monticello]]
*[[Montrose, Minnesota|Montrose]]
*[[Mounds View, Minnesota|Mounds View]]
*[[New Hope, Minnesota|New Hope]]
*[[Oak Grove, Minnesota|Oak Grove]]
*[[Osseo, Minnesota|Osseo]]
*[[Plymouth, Minnesota|Plymouth]]
*[[Princeton, Minnesota|Princeton]]
*[[Ramsey, Minnesota|Ramsey]]
*[[Robbinsdale, Minnesota|Robbinsdale]]
*[[Rockford, Minnesota|Rockford]]
*[[Rogers, Minnesota|Rogers]]
*[[St. Francis, Minnesota|St. Francis]]
*[[St. Michael, Minnesota|St. Michael]]
*[[Spring Lake Park, Minnesota|Spring Lake Park]]
*[[Zimmerman, Minnesota|Zimmerman]]
{{div col end}}

==See also==
* [[List of Minnesota area codes]]
* [[List of North American Numbering Plan area codes]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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{{Area code box|State=MN|
|This=763
| N=[[Area code 320|320]]
| S=[[Area code 612|612]], [[Area code 952|952]]
| E=[[Area code 612|612]], [[Area code 651|651]]
| W=[[Area code 320|320]]
}}

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[[Category:Area codes in the United States|763]]
[[Category:Area codes in Minnesota|763]]
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