California
(951) Area Code 951 — Riverside, California
951 Area Code – Riverside, California: Location, Time Zone & History
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History & Cultural Notes
Riverside got its own area code on July 17, 2004, when 951 split from area code 909, carrying off western Riverside County -- Riverside, Corona, Temecula, Murrieta, and Moreno Valley -- along with a small adjoining strip of San Bernardino County around Colton and Grand Terrace. 909 kept the rest of the Inland Empire and the eastern San Gabriel Valley. Notably, per Wikipedia it was the last geographic area-code split California has carried out; every code the state has introduced since has been an overlay instead.
951 sits at the center of a busy corner of Southern California, bordered by 909, 760, 714, 949, and 619, and stretching out to Perris, Menifee, Lake Elsinore, Hemet, Norco, Eastvale, Jurupa Valley, and Banning. In 2021, mandatory 10-digit local dialing arrived after the 988 code was reserved nationally for the Suicide Prevention Lifeline, resolving a conflict with seven-digit dialing.
- Logistics and warehousing anchor the economy along the Inland Empire distribution corridor.
- Temecula Valley wine country draws visitors to dozens of wineries along Rancho California Road.
- The University of California, Riverside anchors the city's civic and economic identity.
- Riverside's Mission Inn, a Spanish Mission Revival landmark dating to the 1870s, defines the downtown skyline.