Area Code 360

Area Code 360 is allocated to the areas located western Washington but outside of the greater Seattle metropolitan area. All the areas that fall under western Washington region were first part of the original code 206. Western Washington just like the main Washington state follows the Pacific Time Zone.

History and Geographical localities part of the areas covered by 360:

Area Code 360 was created on January 15, 1995 as an overlay for 206; but it was assigned only to the western Washington area. In the American Area Code's history that the Codes 360 and 334 were the first that does not include 1 or 0 as their middle digit. So there is a possibility that they were created to meet up the increasing demand of cell numbers.

State:

The code 360 serves just but only western area of the Washington state.

List of Counties:

Clallam Clark Cowlitz Grays Harbor Island Jefferson King Kitsap Lewis

Mason Pacific Pierce San Juan Skagit Snohomish Thurston Wahkiakum Whatcom

List of Cities:

Aberdeen Acme Alger Amboy Anacortes Arlington Ashford Bald Hill Battle Ground Beaver Belfair Bellingham Big Lake Birch Bay Black Diamond Blaine Blakely Island Bremerton Brinnon Buckley Bucoda Burlington Copalis Camano Island Camas Castle Rock Cathlamet Centralia Chehalis Chimacum Chinook Clallam Bay Clearwater Clinton Colby Concrete Conway Cougar Coupeville Crystal Mountain Curtis Custer Darrington Deming Dewatto Eastsound Eatonville Edison

Elma Enumclaw Everson Ferndale Forks Freeland Friday Harbor Gardiner Glenoma Granite Falls Grayland Grays River Hansville Hat Island Hoodsport Humptulips Kalama Kelso Keyport Kingston La Center La Conner Lacey Lake Goodwin Lake Quinault Langley Laurel Long Beach Longview Lopez Lyman Lynden Maple Falls Marblemount Marysville McCleary Mineral Monroe Montesano Morton Mossyrock Mount Vernon Napavine Naselle Neah Bay Oak Harbor Ocean Park Ocosta

Olympia Onalaska Orchards Orting Pacific Beach Packwood Pe Ell Point Roberts Port Angeles Port Ludlow Port Orchard Port Townsend Poulsbo Puget Island Quilcene Rainier Randle Raymond Ridgefield Rochester Salkum Sedro-Woolley Sequim Yacolt Yale Yelm Shelton Silverdale Skykomish Snohomish South Bend South Prairie Union Stanwood Stevens Pass Sultan Sumas Sunnyslope Suquamish Tenino Toledo Tumwater Westport Winlock Woodland Vader Vancouver Washougal

Other Area Codes for Western Washington:

• 206 - (created on January 1, 1947)
• 253 - (Created on April 27, 1997)
• 425 - (Created on April 27, 1997)
• 564  - (Will overlay 306. Proposed in 1999 but not yet implemented)
• 509 -   (Created in 1957)

Overlay Plan for the Area Code 360:

564 was proposed in 1999 to overlay the existing Area Code 360 but then Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC) deferred the new implementation plan for an indefinite length of time. WUTC believes that current phone number stock with 360 is sufficient to fulfill the phone number demands till 2012.
However 564, when implemented wills server all the areas part of the western Washington and 10-digit dialing will be mandatory within this area even to make local calls. There will be no effect on the cost of the local area calls and they will free as they used to be.

Leading Educational institutes, ISPs and Telecom Carries serving the Area Code 360:

Universities/Colleges serving are:

• Central Washington University
• Vincennes University/Military Education
• Western Washington University
• Northwest College of Art

ISPs are:

• Basic IPS
• Copper net
• NetZero
• AT&T DSL Service
• Telecom Carriers are:
• Dobson Cellular Systems, Inc.
• Citizen Phone, Inc. - AL
• Alltel Mobile Communications, Inc. - Alabama
• National Telephone Co. Of Alabama
• Cellco Partnership DBA Verizon wireless - al
• Teletouch Communications, Inc.
• Southern Telcom Network, Inc. - AR
• New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC
• USA Mobility Wireless, Inc
• Pacific Bell
• Teleport Communications Group - Los Angeles
• Pacific Bell
• Mcimetro, Ats, Inc.
• Pacific Bell
• New Cingular Wireless Pcs, LLC
• Cellco Partnership DBA Verizon Wireless - CA
• Cook Telecom, Inc.
• Pac - West Telecomm, Inc.
• At&t Local
• T-Mobile USA, Inc.
• Verizon California Inc.-Ca (GTE)

Reverse Phone Check Lookup Services:

This may be possible that you get a phone call on you cell or landline and you recognize the area code but don't know who is calling you or teasing you by making junks calls. You can use the online Reverse Phone Check Look up sites to get details about that particular or any other number.
There are a lot of Reverse Phone Check Look up and other Reverse Phone Directories that can be used to uncover the details behind any phone or cell number. These look up directories try to keep their databases updated and they try to add as many new number as they can. In order to collect this up-to-minute information from the respective carriers they have to pay them high fees. This is probably the reason you will get only basic information but have to pay them if interested in detailed information. These directories are independent of any particular area or carrier so you can use any listed or even unregistered number to get you results.
If you don't know how to use these Phone Number directories then you can surf the internet for the help books published by these sites to guide you how to use their sites.