Area code 585 is a state

U.S. state

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 of New York

New York

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 (USA) telephone

Telephone

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 area code and was created in 2002 for use in the city of Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

 and surrounding areas. Previously 716

Area code 716

Area code 716 is an area code that used to dominate Western New York until the new area code of 585 was split off for the Rochester Area in 2002...

 was used for the area now in 585. Area Code 716 was shared with Buffalo

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

 and much of western New York

Western New York

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, until numbers in that area code became scarce. The borders for the 585 area code match county lines, regardless of mailing address, which causes some confusion where mailing city overlaps the municipal boundary. The result is that several mailing cities have numbers in both area codes. Some of these include Arcade, Cuba, and Alden.

Major communities served by this area code

• Rochester
  Rochester, New York
  Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...
  
  
• Medina
  Medina, New York
  Medina is a village in the towns of Shelby and Ridgeway in Orleans County, New York, United States. The population was 6,415 at the 2000 census, making it the second most populous municipality in the county after Albion, the county seat. The village was named by its surveyor...
  
  
• Canandaigua
• Batavia
• Albion
  Albion, New York
  Albion may refer to the following places in the U.S. state of New York:* Albion , Orleans County, New York* Albion , Orleans County, New York* Albion, Oswego County, New York, a town...
  
  

Airtran Airways flight 585

There used to be an AirTran nonstop flight from Greater Rochester International Airport (in area code 585) to Orlando International Airport with 585 as the flight number. This flight has since been renumbered flight 1400.

External links

• List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 585 Area Code