Area Code 601

Area Code 601 is the original telephone area code which was created in 1947 for providing telephone services to the State of Mississippi. The Code was providing services to the entire State until 1997 when it started running out of available phone numbers. In 2005, the code 601 was planned to be overlaid with area code 769. The State of Mississippi is one of the East South Central States - one of the nine geographic divisions of United States of America. There are total four States making up the particular division:

• Alabama
• Kentucky
• Mississippi
• Tennessee

The Standard Time Zone followed by the code 601 is Central Time Zone.  There are three area codes which are reserved for the State of Mississippi. 

• 228 (Created in 1997)
• 601 (Created in 1947)
• 662 (Created in 1999)

Area Codes surrounding the Code 601 are:

• West: 318
• North: 662
• East: 205, 251
• South: 225, 228, 985

List of Counties:

ADA ALCORN AMITE ATTALA CLAIBORNE CLARKE COAHOMA COPIAH COVINGTON FORREST FRANKLIN GEORGE GREENE HARRISON HINDS JACKSON

JASPER JEFFERSON JEFFERSON DAVIS JONES KEMPER LAMAR LAUDERDALE LAWRENCE LEAKE LEFLORE LINCOLN MADISON MARION MONROE NESHOBA NEWTON

PANOLA PEARL RIVER PERRY PIKE RANKIN SCOTT SIMPSON SMITH STONE WALTHALL WARREN WAYNE WILKINSON WINSTON

List of Cities:

BAILEY BASSFIELD BATESVILLE BAY SPRINGS BEAUMONT BOGUE CHITTO BOLTON BRANDON BRAXTON BROOKHAVEN BROOKLYN BUCKATUNNA BUDE BYRAM CAMDEN CANTON CARRIERE CARSON CARTHAGE CENTREVILLE CHUNKY CLARKSDALE CLINTON COLLINS COLLINSVILLE COLUMBIA CONEHATTA CORINTH CROSBY CRYSTAL SPRINGS D LO DALEVILLE DE KALB DECATUR EDWARDS ELLISVILLE ENTERPRISE FAYETTE FLORA FLORENCE FLOWOOD FOREST FOXWORTH GATTMAN GAUTIER GEORGETOWN GLOSTER GREENWOOD GULFPORT HARPERVILLE HARRISVILLE HATTIESBURG HAZLEHURST HEIDELBERG

HERMANVILLE HICKORY HILLSBORO HURLEY ITTA BENA JACKSON JAYESS KOKOMO KOSCIUSKO LAKE LAUDERDALE LAUREL LAWRENCE LEAKESVILLE LENA LIBERTY LITTLE ROCK LORMAN LOUIN LUCEDALE LUDLOW LUMBERTON MADISON MAGEE MAGNOLIA MARION MC CALL CREEK MC HENRY MC LAIN MCCOMB MEADVILLE MENDENHALL MERIDIAN MIZE MONTICELLO MORTON MOSELLE MOUNT OLIVE NATCHEZ NEELY NEW AUGUSTA NEWHEBRON NEWTON NICHOLSON NOXAPATER OAK VALE OSYKA OVETT PACHUTA PASCAGOULA PATTISON PAULDING PEARL PELAHATCHIE

PERKINSTON PETAL PHILADELPHIA PICAYUNE PINOLA POPLARVILLE PORT GIBSON PORTERVILLE PRENTISS PRESTON PULASKI PURVIS QUITMAN RALEIGH RAYMOND REDWOOD RICHLAND RICHTON RIDGELAND ROSE HILL ROXIE RUTH SANDY HOOK SEBASTOPOL SEMINARY SHUBUTA SILVER CREEK SMITHDALE SONTAG SOSO STAR STATE LINE STONEWALL STRINGER SUMMIT SUMRALL TAYLORSVILLE TERRY THOMASTOWN TOOMSUBA TYLERTOWN UNION UNION CHURCH UTICA VICKSBURG VOSSBURG WALNUT GROVE WAYNESBORO WESSON WHITFIELD WIGGINS WOODVILLE

Leading institutions, ISPs and Telephone companies:

Some of the leading educational institutions serving the area of code 601 are:

• Alcorn State University (601) 877-6100
• Antonelli College - Hattiesburg Campus  (601) 583-4100
• Belhaven College (601) 968-5965
• Bonner Campbell College (601) 852-5401
• East Central Community College (601) 635-2111
• Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus (601) 856-5400
• Jackson State University (601) 968-2100

Some of the main carriers and telephone companies for 601 areas are:

• ALLTEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC. - AR
• AT&T LOCAL
• CELLCO PARTNERSHIP DBA VERIZON WIRELESS - AL
• MCI WORLDCOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC., CA
• MPOWER COMMUNICATIONS CORP. - CA
• NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS PCS, LLC
• PACIFIC BELL
• THE TELEPHONE CONNECTION OF LOS ANGELES, INC.
• UNITED STATES CELLULAR CORP. - CALIFORNIA
• USA MOBILITY WIRELESS, INC.
• VISTAVOX OF ARKANSAS, INC. - AR
• WAYNE MARKIS DBA HANDY PAGE

Some of the ISPs offering dialup and dedicated services for the people of 601 areas are:
IMGISP.NET

• Incredible Networks
• Inter-Akt.Com Llc
• Internet & Info Solutions
• Invenice.Net
• Iserverpark.Com
• 1+ Long Distance Network
• Lucky U Web

Reverse Phone Check for the area code 601:

Reverse phone directory is an online tool that provides you the service for finding details on any phone number you need to know. All you need to do is to access the reverse phone directory; type the number to be searched and get the details. Reverse directories are available at free of cost while some of them need you to pay some fee. If you are searching a phone number having area code 601 then you can get services of reverse phone directory for the 601 code. Never forget adding a three-digit code; otherwise you can get improper and inaccurate information.
Type the phone number along with a three-digit area code; click on the search button and get the details like name of the owner, address, service type and a lot more. If you don?t know the area being served by particular code and you need to know then you can perform area code reverse lookup through area code directory.