Area code 218

A map of Minnesota area codes.

218 is the North American telephone area code for the northern part of the state of Minnesota. It is one of Minnesota's original two codes, although it has been modified since inception. By area, the region is the largest area code in Minnesota, covering roughly the northern half and including the cities of Duluth, Hibbing, Brainerd, Bemidji, and Moorhead.

According to a 1947 map of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), the 218 region was originally "r"-shaped and covered about two-thirds of Minnesota. Area code 612 covered the remaining southeastern portion. The shape of 218 was modified to roughly coincide with its current shape in 1954 when area code 507 was created to stretch across the southern fifth of Minnesota. A very minute change in the 1990s brought the Northwest Angle into the 218 area after being part of Bell Canada's Clearwater Bay exchange in Area code 807.

The 218 region was unaffected in 1996 when the 612 area was subdivided. Today, area code 320 runs the length of the southern border with 218, and the 612 area code has been reduced in size so much that it now just covers Minneapolis proper and a few nearby suburbs.

Cities and communities within area code 218

Ada Aitkin Akeley Ashby Aurora Babbitt Backus Bagley Barnesville Barnum Battle Lake Baudette Baxter Bemidji Bena Big Falls Bigfork Biwabik Bovey Boy River Brainerd Breckenridge Brookston Carlton

Cass Lake Chisholm Clearbrook Cloquet Cohasset Coleraine Cook Cromwell Crookston Crosby Dalton Deer River Deerwood Detroit Lakes Dilworth Duluth East Grand Forks Elbow Lake Ely Emily Erhard Erskine Eveleth

Federal Dam Fergus Falls Fertile Floodwood Fosston Frazee Gilbert Glyndon Grand Marais Grand Portage Grand Rapids Greenbush Hackensack Hallock Hawley Hermantown Hibbing Hill City Hoyt Lakes Humboldt International Falls Karlstad Keewatin

Littlefork Longville Lutsen Mahnomen McGregor Menahga Mizpah Moorhead Moose Lake Motley Mountain Iron Nashwauk Newfolden New York Mills Northome Nisswa Outing Orr Park Rapids Parkers Prairie Pelican Rapids Pequot Lakes Perham Pine River

Proctor Red Lake Falls Remer Roseau Rothsay St. Hilaire St. Vincent Sebeka Silver Bay Staples Sturgeon Lake Thief River Falls Thomson Tower Twin Valley Two Harbors Vergas Virginia Wadena Walker Warren Warroad Willow River Wrenshall

See also

• List of NANP area codes

External links

• NANPA area code map of Minnesota
• List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 218 Area Code

References

• Area code history. AreaCode-Info.com.
• (2001). 1947 Area Code Assignment Map. GIF image at AreaCode-Info.com.

Minnesota area codes: 218, 320, 507/924, 612, 651, 763, 952

	North: 204, 807
West: 701	218	East: 534, 715, Lake Superior
	South: 320
Manitoba area codes: 204/431/584
Ontario area codes: 416/437/647, 519/226/548/382, 613/343/753, 705/249/683, 807, 905/289/365/742
Wisconsin area codes: 262, 414, 608/353, 715/534, 920/274
North Dakota area codes: 701