775 Area Code – Reno, Nevada: Location, Time Zone & History

Area code 775 covers everything in Nevada except Las Vegas -- a footprint stretching from Reno, "The Biggest Little City in the World," across sixteen counties to Carson City, Elko, and the Black Rock Desert. It was created December 12, 1998, splitting off from 702, which had served the entire state since 1947; the split confined 702 to Clark County alone and handed the rest of Nevada to the new code.

775 has never needed an overlay of its own, though it did join the nationwide shift to mandatory ten-digit local dialing on October 24, 2021, part of the effort to free up 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The region's economy runs on more than casinos:

• The Carlin Trend in Elko County ranks among the world's largest gold-mining districts.
• Tesla's Gigafactory Nevada anchors advanced manufacturing in Storey County.
• The University of Nevada, Reno drives higher education, while Lake Tahoe's Nevada shore fuels outdoor tourism.

Culturally, 775 territory hosts Burning Man's Black Rock City each summer and the historic Comstock Lode silver district around Virginia City -- a region defined as much by open desert and mountain as by any single city.