Virginia
(948) Area Code 948 — Norfolk, Virginia
948 Area Code – Norfolk, Virginia: Location, Time Zone & History
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History & Cultural Notes
948 holds a small distinction in Virginia telephone history: it was the state's first overlay area code, layered onto 757 across the Hampton Roads region and the Eastern Shore. As 757 approached exhaustion of its central office codes, regulators set a permissive dialing period starting September 11, 2021, made 10-digit local dialing mandatory April 9, 2022, and opened 948 numbers for assignment May 9, 2022.
The overlay spans Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton, Suffolk, and Williamsburg, bordered by area codes 804, 434, 252, and 410. It is a territory defined as much by the U.S. Navy as by geography: Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval base and headquarters of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, sits at its center, alongside Joint Base Langley-Eustis.
Industry here runs deep and heavy. Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia's largest industrial employer, builds the Navy's nuclear aircraft carriers within the 757/948 footprint, while the Port of Virginia handles maritime trade and Virginia Beach's oceanfront draws steady tourism. Williamsburg adds a different note entirely, home to Colonial Williamsburg, billed as the world's largest living-history museum.