Area code 559 provides communication area code coverage to a number of eleven counties and ninety-two cities, and it has a total of five hundred and seventy-nine exchanges.
The population of the counties and cities under this telecommunications north American area code is almost one and a half million people.
The majority of which includes mostly whites and Hispanics.
This area code which was established on November the fourteenth, nineteen ninety-eight covers mainly central California, and it was created to serve a growing community which was putting a strain on area code 209, which has been used since nineteen fifty-eight, and led to it being split, with the southern portion of it becoming used as 559 instead.
Some of the cities and/or towns that are served by 559 include Fowler, Ducor, San Joaquin, Knowles and Parksdale.
Porterville in Tulare county features some stunning historical homes under this north American area code such as the Gothic looking Zalud home which is now historically protected by the Nationally Registered Historical Places (NHRP), and also the First Congressional Church which is equally just as stunning with its very unforgettable medieval look to it.
Kings county also under the area code has grown significantly and contains the towns of Armona, Avenal, Corcoran, Hanford, Home Garden, Kettleman City, Lemoore, Lemoore Station and the little community of Stratford.
