area, code, telephone, area, code, north, american, numbering, plan, southern, part, joaquin, valley, northern, part, angeles, metropolitan, area, numbering, plan, area, comprises, most, kern, county, most, northern, angeles, county, specifically, santa, clari. Area code 661 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for the southern part of the San Joaquin Valley and for the far northern part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area The numbering plan area comprises most of Kern County most of northern Los Angeles County specifically the Santa Clarita Valley the Antelope Valley and the surrounding mountains and small parts of Ventura County Santa Barbara County and Tulare County It was created in an area code split of area code 805 on February 13 1999 Numbering plan areas in California blue and border states Area code 661 is shown in red Principal cities in the numbering plan area are Bakersfield Palmdale Santa Clarita and Lancaster Contents 1 Significance 2 Service area 2 1 Kern County 2 2 Los Angeles County 2 3 Santa Barbara County 2 4 Tulare County 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksSignificance editThis area code encompasses Edwards Air Force Base where the sound barrier was first broken by Chuck Yeager The speed of sound at sea level is 661 knots hence the correlation Service area editKern County edit Arvin Bakersfield Bear Valley Springs Buttonwillow Caliente Delano Edwards Air Force Base Famoso Fellows Frazier Park Golden Hills Grapevine Havilah Keene Lake of the Woods Lamont Lebec Lost Hills Maricopa McFarland McKittrick Mettler Mojave North Edwards Oildale Pine Mountain Club Rosamond Rosedale Shafter South Taft Stallion Springs Taft Taft Heights Tehachapi Tupman Valley Acres Walker Basin Wasco Weedpatch Wheeler Ridge Los Angeles County edit Acton Agua Dulce Antelope Acres Castaic Del Sur Desert View Highlands Gorman Green Valley Juniper Hills Lake Hughes Lake Los Angeles Lancaster Leona Valley Littlerock Llano Neenach Palmdale Pearblossom Quartz Hill Santa Clarita Stevenson Ranch Valencia Val Verde Valyermo Santa Barbara County edit Cuyama New Cuyama Tulare County edit Allensworth Earlimart PoseySee also editList of California area codes List of North American Numbering Plan area codesReferences editExternal links editNANPA area code map of California California area codes 209 213 323 279 916 310 424 341 510 408 669 415 628 442 760 530 559 562 619 858 626 650 657 714 661 707 747 818 805 820 831 840 909 925 949 951 North 559West 805 820 661 East 442 760South 805 820 747 818 62635 00 N 118 42 W 35 N 118 7 W 35 118 7 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Area code 661 amp oldid 1192405629, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
