Area code 386

The Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area is the most populous metro area in 386. The area code was created in an area code split of 904 in 2001. Numbering plan area 386 is one of the few in North America that is not geographically contiguous on land. The eastern section comprises most of Volusia County, with the exception of the southwest (the unincorporated town of Osteen), all of Flagler County, the northernmost portion of Alachua County, and far eastern Putnam County. The western section covers all of Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Suwannee, and Union counties. Daytona Beach and its suburbs are by far the most populous cities in 386. When the American Telephone and Telegraph Company created the area code system for a nationwide telephone numbering plan in 1947, the entire state was a single numbering plan area (NPA), and received area code 305. In 1953, the southwestern part of the state became area code 813, while 305 continued to serve the rest of the state.