About Area Code 316
- Region Code
- 316
- City
- Wichita
- State
- Kansas
- Population
- 625,228
- Largest City
- Wichita
- Neighboring Codes
- 620 (Hutchinson, Kansas)
- Time Zone
- Central Time
Kansas
(316) Area Code 316 — Wichita, Kansas
316 Area Code – Wichita, Kansas: Location, Time Zone & History
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History & Cultural Notes
The "Air Capital of the World" nickname has stuck to Wichita since 1928, when local aircraft manufacturers were turning out 120 airplanes a week. That aviation legacy still anchors the region's economy: Textron Aviation, maker of the Beechcraft and Cessna lines, and Spirit AeroSystems remain major employers within the 316 numbering area, alongside a broader aircraft supply chain.
Beyond aerospace, the local economy draws on several other sectors:
- healthcare
- oil and gas
- agriculture
- aircraft supply chain manufacturing
Area code 316 was one of the original 86 area codes issued across North America in October 1947, when it covered all of southern Kansas. That territory shrank in 2001, when the newly created area code 620 took over the rest of the region, leaving it as an enclave serving Sedgwick County and neighboring parts of Butler, Harvey, Kingman, Reno and Sumner counties -- communities such as Derby, Newton, Andover, El Dorado and Haysville. The result is one of just six "doughnut" pairs in the North American numbering plan, where a single area code is fully surrounded by just one neighbor rather than several.