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March 2024

The following places have refreshed and added pictures:

Area Code 505 (New Mexico)
Area Code 641 (Iowa)
Area Code 412 (Pennsylvania)
Area Code 252 (North Carolina)
Area Code 856 (New Jersey)
Area Code 815 (Illinois)

February 2024

The following places have refreshed and added pictures:

Area Code 251 (Alabama)
Area Code 229 (Georgia)
Area Code 478 (Georgia)
Area Code 780 (Alberta)
Area Code 239 (Florida)
Area Code 636 (Missouri)
Area Code 816 (Missouri)
Area Code 936 (Texas)
Area Code 254 (Texas)
Area Code 434 (Virginia)

January 2024

The following places have refreshed and added photos:

Area Code 450 (Quebec)
Area Code 414 (Wisconsin)
Area Code 407 (Florida)
Area Code 228 (Mississippi)
Area Code 807 (Ontario)
Area Code 804 (Virginia)
Area Code 703 (Virginia)
Area Code 901 (Tennessee)
Area Code 314 (Missouri)

December 2023

The following places have refreshed and added photos:

Area Code 613 (Ontario)
Area Code 204 (Manitoba)
Area Code 717 (Pennsylvania)
Area Code 607 (New York)
Area Code 661 (California)
Area Code 904 (Florida)
Area Code 501 (Arkansas)
Area Code 403 (Alberta)

November 2023

The following places have refreshed and added photos:

Area Code 704 (North Carolina)
Area Code 910 (North Carolina)
Area Code 912 (Georgia)
Area Code 867 (Northwest Territories/Yukon/Nunavut)
Area Code 719 (Colorado)
Area Code 405 (Oklahoma)
Area Code 616 (Michigan)
Area Code 906 (Michigan)
Area Code 845 (New York)
Area Code 956 (Texas)
Area Code 757 (Virginia)

October 2023

The following places have refreshed and added photos:

Area Code 276 (Virginia)
Area Code 540 (Virginia)
Area Code 604 (British Columbia)
Area Code 940 (Texas)
Area Code 320 (Minnesota)
Area Code 248 (Michigan)
Area Code 417 (Missouri)
Area Code 715 (Wisconsin)
Area Code 256 (Alabama)
Area Code 907 (Alaska)
Area Code 408 (California)
Area Code 517 (Michigan)
(Donations from Austin B.)

August 2023

The following places have refreshed and added photos:

Area Code 905 (Ontario)
Area Code 914 (New York)
Area Code 902 (Nova Scotia/Prince Edward Island)
Area Code 601 (Mississippi)

July 2023

The following places have refreshed and added photos:

Area Code 724 (Pennsylvania)
Area Code 336 (North Carolina)
Area Code 306 (Saskatchewan)
Area Code 416 (Ontario)
Area Code 810 (Michigan)
Area Code 684 (American Samoa)
Area Code 670 (Northern Mariana Islands
)

I obtained a new LERG in February 2023. Through combing the data, once again we have some more consolidation of central offices (see the major consolidation in August 2021 below). The total number of COs reduced by 68, but on the site itself we lost 17. So not too bad in two years. Obviously the number of COs will continue to decrease, but when we get a LERG we'll update the database accordingly. So new total numbers of all COs out there in the US is 18,840 and for Canada is 3206, for a total for US/Canada of 22,046

March 27, 2023

Added pictures for Area Code 218 in Minnesota.

February 28, 2023

Updated the pictures for Area Code 337 in Louisiana and added new pictures for Area Code 269 in Michigan.

February 19, 2023

Added pictures to Area Code 205 in Alabama.

February 11, 2023

Hello, we're back! Updates to the site include Nebraska (308 and 402) as well as updating the affected CO listings that were transferred to Brightspeed in October 2022.

May 16, 2022

Taking a bit of a break from the site, but thanks to a couple of contributors I've added some new pictures in California, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

November 18, 2021

Added pictures to Area Code 281 (suburban Houston Texas).

October 24, 2021

Added pictures to Area Code 713 (Texas) and Area Code 920 (Wisconsin).

October 1, 2021

Added pictures to Area Code 903 in Texas.

September 8, 2021

Added pictures for the Corpus Christi area of Texas (Area Code 361).

September 5, 2021

Added and updated pictures for the Austin, Texas area (Area Code 512).

August 31, 2021

Even though I haven’t updated the site very much in August, I’ve still been very busy behind the scenes. In January 2021 I obtained a new Local Exchange Routing Guide (LERG) to help with my central office research. However, there have been many updates since the original one I had from 2013. Many telcos are no longer reporting their smaller switches (mostly remotes and remote digital nodes). Hence that that has reduced the actual amount of central offices to find pictures for. In fact the overall database lost around 1600 central offices, at least on paper. The actual amount of actual central offices lost was probably less than a dozen (mostly due to consolidation), but this is how they now report to iConnectiv these days. My guess is that telcos have to pay to report and this is solely a cost saving measure. So in any regard the amount of central offices in the US went way down (from around 20,000 to 18,500). On the pages, I still list the central offices and keep the original pictures even though they’ve been “deprecated” in the database. The worst offenders are North Dakota and South Dakota. But I finally took the time to determine which offices were deprecated and which remained. So now the pages reflect this. Deprecated ones are now shown in blue with a “was” next to the original CLLI code. But in the grand scheme of things, we are now about 33% complete and continuing to work on the site. And again, any contributions are more than welcome!

August 7, 2021

As many of you know, there are a number of wildfires in northern California right now. There is rumor that the central office building in Greenville, CA in Area Code 530 was burned to the ground. I did a screen grab from Bing Maps and put it on the site. Hopefully this CO survived.

August 1, 2021

Added new pictures for the Fort Worth, Texas area in Area Code 817.

July 25, 2021

I did the research with the central office realignment between 2013 and 2021 for Louisiana. Sadly we lost 17 central offices due to the realignment. So that takes us down from 300 for 283 for Louisiana. As before, I am not removing any photos, just marking them in blue instead of black, and putting a "was" before the last known CLLI code.

July 24, 2021

Added a ton of new pictures for the Dallas, Texas region in Area Code 214 and Area Code 972.

July 4, 2021

Refreshed some of the photos for Area Code 423 in Tennessee. I took some of those photos and they were over 15 years old.

June 1, 2021

Added a lot of new pictures to Area Code 770 in Georgia.

May 27, 2021

Did a fair amount of work on South Dakota (Area Code 605). With the new system, the amount of central offices went down from 237 to 98. That resulted with a net deprecation of four central offices. But we also gained some in the process for a grand total of 37. Some older pictures were refreshed. Also did some photo refreshing and additional photos for Area Code 425 in Washington state.

May 25, 2021

Refreshed the pictures for the following: Texas - 210, California - 619 and 858. I took pictures of these places in 2007 and felt it was time to do a photo refresh of these even though they're from GSV.

May 18, 2021

Refreshed the pictures for Area Codes 727 and 813 in Florida. Fixed all the broken links, etc.

May 16, 2021

New pictures added to Area Code 315 in upstate New York.

May 2, 2021

Oh Canada! Oh British Columbia! I finally was able to make progress on Canada for the first time in forever. Worked on both Area Codes 604 and 250. For both area codes, I focused on the main switches and not the remotes. Some of these switches are very hard to located using GSV since they are quite remote.

April 21, 2021

Found that I hadn't updated Virginia in a while. Refreshed and added some new pictures in Area Code 276.

While I was at it, I refreshed the photos for Washington, DC (Area Code 202).

April 20, 2021

Someone sent me an E-mail saying that my Salt Lake City Main picture was old. (Heck, there are a lot of old pictures on the site.) But that led me to update Utah this week. So I updated as much of Area Codes 435 and 801 as I could. Like Arizona, there was a decrease in the number of actual central offices due to deprecation. We lost 10 in Area Code 435. However, we did have an overall gain of pictures for both area codes. So for the most part, Utah is now complete for the foreseeable future.

April 14, 2021

Extensive work was done for Arizona listings for the first time in the better part of 10 years. A number of photos of CenturyLink buildings still showed the old Qwest logo. Area Codes 480, 602, and 623 have had most of their photos refreshed. Area Codes 520 and 928 have had selected CenturyLink photos refreshed.

April 9, 2021

Added new pictures and refreshed a few for the following Area Codes in Illinois: 630, 708, 847.

April 3, 2021

New pictures added to downstate New York (NYC/Long Island). Filled in gaps for Area Codes 212, 718, 516 and 631. So Downstate NY is mostly complete, I'll move on to Upstate NY eventually.

March 24, 2021

It's obvious that the idea of a consolidation for softswitch nodes is common across the United States. I went through all of Arizona (which for the most part has been complete for several years) and based upon the changes in terminology and reporting, a number of central offices that used to have unique CLLI codes in Area Codes 520 and 928 no longer do, and have been deprecated to digital nodes. Therefore these are no longer "active" as far as the list is concerned. The pictures will remain, but the ratecenters will be listed in blue, and the former CLLI codes will say "was" in front of them. In 520, we lost 8 central offices, and in 928 we lost 9, for a grand total of 17. Even though this reduces our overall count by a few, this also reduces the amount of central offices total.

March 23, 2021

Remember what I said about North Dakota? (see below.) Kansas is pretty much the same way. I assume that a lot of small mom-and-pop telcos have done the same thing. But now Kansas is in good shape picture wise. Area Codes 913 and 816 are mostly complete, while Area Codes 620 and 785 hit on the larger places.

March 7, 2021

Added new pictures for Illinois (618).

February 28, 2021

Added new pictures for Illinois (217 and 309)

February 18, 2021

Oregon (503 and 541) pictures have been refreshed.

February 17, 2021

Another challenge was North Dakota (701). You'd think it would be rather easy, but it isn't. It's mostly a bunch of small independents, but they are more advanced than the the big boys and moved on to softswitches. But in doing so, the small communities that used to have remote switches are just now nodes that no longer have their own identity or unique CLLI code. So they are just swallowed up by the main switch that serves the small independent. In the end I managed to get a few, but not as many as I would have liked because of all the consolidation. So major towns are represented here now, but it will be difficult for non CenturyLink areas since these places no longer have CLLI codes.

February 15, 2021

Added new pictures for Mississippi (662).

Refreshed some pictures for Nevada (702 and 775).

February 14, 2021

You think you're done, and when you go back and check and see later that you're not. Not only that, but you made a lot of mistakes along the way. But the last time I worked on Maryland was in 2011, nearly 10 years go as I write this. A lot has changed since then, and a lot of places that weren't on GSV now are. And now GSV uses a lot better resolution for their photos than they did back in 2011. So I overhauled both area codes 301 and 410 for Maryland with as many new pictures as I could, and added quite a few in the process. So hopefully Maryland is as done as it is going to get for several years to come and is mostly complete.

February 12, 2021

Added new pictures for Florida (321, 561, 772, 863, 941, 954).

February 2, 2021

Added new pictures for California (925), Pennsylvania (610), Wisconsin (715), Illinois (309, 630, 847), and Iowa (563).

January 1, 2021

Added new pictures for Wisconsin (262, 715, 920), North Carolina (252), New York (631), Ontario (905), and Illinois (847).

September 13, 2020

Added new pictures for Illinois (847).

August 2, 2020

Added new pictures for Ohio (216, 330, 419, 440, 513, 614, 740, 937).

July 9, 2020

Added new pictures for Illinois (630 and 847).

July 6, 2020

Updated a number of pictures for North Carolina (252).

July 5, 2020

Added an updated the picture for Rapid City "Blackhawk" in South Dakota (605).

Updated and added pictures for Michigan (313) completing that area code.

Updated and added pictures for Washington state (206) completing that area code.

July 4, 2020

Added 63 new pictures for Hawaii (808) nearly completing the entire state.

June 28, 2020

Added pictures for Washington state (360).

June 24, 2020

Added pictures for Washington state (425 and 509).

June 20, 2020

Added pictures for Montana (406).

June 6, 2020

Added pictures for Ontario (705) and Illinois (847).

Updated and added several pictures for Washington state (253).

June 3. 2020

Updated most of the pictures for California. (That was a job and a half!) A lot of the pictures were quite old (more than 15 years in many cases). Eventually I'll go back and add more pictures.

May 25, 2020

Added listings for Idaho (208), Illinois (847) and Ontario (519).

May 23, 2020

Added listings for Nebraska (308 and 402). Also added a few listings for Illinois (847).

May 21, 2020

Added listings for Pennsylvania (215, 412, 570, 610, 724, and 814). Most updates for 814 were performed in March, this is a small update.

May 13, 2020

Added listings for South Carolina (843 and 864). 803 was updated back in March 2020.

Added listings for Wyoming (307).

Added a listing for Illinois (847).

May 11, 2020

Added listings for New Jersey (201, 609, 732, 908, 973). 856 was already complete. This mostly completes New Jersey.

May 4, 2020

Added listings for Louisiana (318, 504, 985).

May 1, 2020

Added listings for Indiana (219, 260, 317, 574, 765, 812).

April 13, 2020

Added listings for Iowa (319, 515, 563, 641, 712).

April 12, 2020

Added listings for Missouri (816) and Wisconsin (608).

April 8, 2020

Added listings for Delaware (302). Most of Delaware is complete.

April 7, 2020

Added listings for Illinois (815 and 847), Michigan (616), and North Carolina (919).

April 6, 2020

Added listings for Illinois (773).

April 4, 2020

Completed fixing errors on all existing pages. Updated listings as appropriate to show proper company lineage, etc.

Added new pages for Guam (671) and US Virgin Islands (340).

March 31, 2020

Updated listings for Colorado. Added new listings for Colorado (719).

March 30, 2020

Updated pictures and listings for Canada. Added new listings for Alberta (403) and British Columbia (250).

March 28, 2020

Updated select listings for Virginia (276, 434, 540, 757, and 804)

March 27, 2020

Added new listings for South Carolina (803).

March 26, 2020

After a very long hiatus, we're back! COVID is having the webmaster stay home and is able to do more CO buildings (via GSV).

Added new listings for Pennsylvania (814).

January 21, 2018

Been doing a bunch of small updates. Here's the rollup: Virginia, Maryland, Vermont, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington state.

August 20, 2017

Thanks to contributions from Allan, we now have pictures for most of the following states: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

July 22, 2017

Updates to the following states: Connecticut, West Virginia, Hawaii, Georgia, Puerto Rico.

March 19, 2017

Updated West Virginia (304/681).

February 6, 2017

Updated to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida, New Mexico, Illinois, New York, Colorado and Texas.

November 12, 2016

Updates to Massachusetts, Virginia, Washington, New Mexico, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida.

August 20, 2016

Updates to the following states: New York, Florida, Utah, Georgia, Oregon, Massachusetts, Washington, California.

July 1, 2016

Replaced some older pictures for VA (757).

May 23, 2016

Sorry for the lack of updates - been busy with other projects, work travel and vacation!

Additions to CA (949), MA (413) and CT (860).

December 24, 2015

Lots of additions since August! Georgia, Tennessee, Colorado, New York, Alabama and New Jersey!

August 30, 2015

New additions include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas.

July 25, 2015

Lots of new additions in the last month. Florida (850 and 305), Wisconsin, New York, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama (251).

June 20, 2015

Been a while since I updated this page! The site's been worked on in many places and finally am caught up with all the changes! States updated: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Vermont, New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey.

October 11, 2014

Added more to Arizona (almost complete!), Wisconsin and North Carolina.

August 17, 2014

Added a bunch to Pennsylvania (412 and 724 area codes).

July 26, 2014

Filling in the holes here and there and playing catch up. New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wyoming, Maryland, Indiana and Pennsylvania.

July 5, 2014

Our contributors have been busy! New Jersey, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, New Mexico, Ohio. Washington, Tennessee.

June 8, 2014

I've been making updates, just not making note of them here. Let's see.. LOTS of new updates. I mean TONS of updates! Connecticut, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma. More to come soon!

January 25, 2014

LOTS of new pictures! A whole bunch for Washington state and a few in Idaho.

December 14, 2013

Updates include Arizona and Texas. (Thanks to our contributors Craig and Larry!)

November 24, 2013

Sorry for not updating this page. Lots of new stuff over time. Arkansas, California, Florida, New Jersey,

August 25, 2013

More CO building pictures! Again, thanks to our contributors. More from Wisconsin and now a new state - Iowa!

August 4, 2013

OK, I think I finally have the backlog complete. And again thanks to our contributors! New pictures from Texas, Florida, Idaho, Rhode Island, Missouri, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Arkansas.

June 30, 2013

More new and updated stuff from our contributors. Larry, Linda and Roberto. I also added a few I took myself. Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania & Texas.

June 1, 2013

More and more CO buildings have been added. And a big THANK YOU to all of our contributors! Craig, Larry, Warren, Linda, Jason and others!

New CO building pictures from Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Mexico, Virginia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Louisiana.

April 19, 2013

Sorry for the long dry spell. Been working on other projects. Updates for Arizona, New Mexico, Virginia and newly added state Idaho.

January 19, 2013

I think the database coordination has finally been completed. A lot of fixing of broken stuff behind the scenes makes updating this site much easier!

But you came here to see what new pictures I've posted, right? Here ya go: Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Tennessee, Virginia. Again, a big thank you for all the contributors!

November 11, 2012

We are doing a lot of work behind the scenes. Our databases haven't been kept up to date, so we updated them and fixed a few things behind the scenes. Things aren't perfect but for the most part are in a lot better shape then they've been in a while. So now we can get back to adding more Telephone Central Office Building Pictures.

By the way, a BIG BIG BIG Thank You to all the contributors to this site. Without our support this site would be NOWHERE as big as it is now! But we can ALWAYS take more contributions to the site! Please click on on the Contact Us link on the left margin and let us know if you can contribute. Even one CO building picture is better than none!

October 7, 2012

Added some more for New Jersey as well as starting to adding Canadian provinces.

September 8, 2012

The backlog is over. Over 70 new CO building pictures added. Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia

September 2, 2012

Wow.. it's been a while, hasn't it? I've been really busy in my personal life, and thanks to all of you who submitted photos! There is a HUGE and I do mean HUGE backlog I need to work though. I'm getting there, slowly but surely. The pictures are starting to show up on the site. This is to let people know that I'm getting to your pictures as soon as I can. Keep the photos coming! Thanks!

February 22, 2012

More pictures from Arizona and New Mexico (thanks Craig!)

January 22, 2012

Thanks to our contributors! We've added more pictures from Arizona, Rhode Island and South Dakota.

Note - There will not be any additions to this site for a long while UNLESS I have submissions. So if you like this site and want to see more Telephone Central Office Building Pictures, PLEASE contact us and give us some pictures. So in the meantime, I will be working on other web and non web projects for a while. Time to give this site a break! :)

November 22, 2011

Finally cleared our entire backlog to this date. New additions from the following states: California, Colorado, Kansas, New Jersey, Ontario (Canada), Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington & Maine.

November 13, 2011

Completed our very long term project of incorporating the Central Office Building pictures from The Central Office website. Pictures from the following states have been added: Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia. 

October 3, 2011

Added a few to Arizona, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.

August 12, 2011

Added several more to Arizona (thanks Craig) and also added several for northern Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan.

July 15, 2011

Added 60+ new listings for Maryland.

June 8, 2011

Added 15 more for Florida and 1 more for Missouri.

May 29, 2011

Added 38 more for 301/240 Area Code in Maryland (from GSV).

May 16, 2011

Added 14 new CO building pictures for Area Code 804 in Virginia. Also added many pictures from Arizona and Missouri on the last update.

May 15, 2011

A major update to the site. All pages moved to states instead of old RBOC regions. Makes much more sense and will be easier to update and add to the site in the future.

April 4, 2011

Additions and updates for Wisconsin (Thanks Joe!) and Missouri (Thanks Warren!).

January 30, 2011

Additions for Virginia (703 via GSV).

January 29, 2011

Additions for California (858, 760 and 951).

January 15, 2011

Additions for Arizona, Florida, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

December 10, 2010

Additions for Arizona, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

December 4, 2010

Lots of additions for Arizona, California, Maryland and Virginia.

September 26, 2010

Finished District of Columbia (202). Added more for Virginia and Missouri.

September 8, 2010

Maryland has been incorporated from Telebeans. Also new additions for Missouri, Arizona and Virginia.

September 1, 2010

In progress of incorporating pictures from the Telebeans website. All of Virginia is now incorporated. Maryland, Delaware and eastern North Carolina (and a couple of other places) will be incorporated in the next few weeks.

August 23, 2010

Added four more for Arizona.

August 15, 2010

More updates. Added more for Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas & Virginia.

August 6, 2010

We've been updating our site almost daily since early July. We now have over 130 CO buildings for Missouri, plus a new one for Michigan, a few new ones for Arizona, and a couple from New York.

July 11, 2010

Even more in Arizona and Missouri and one in California!

July 9, 2010

We have a new contributor for Arkansas and Missouri. Also added some more CO building pictures for Arizona (thanks Craig!) and one in Ohio (thanks Charles!)

June 29, 2010

Added some more CO building pictures for Arizona (thanks Craig!).

June 11, 2010

Added even more CO pictures for Maryland.

June 11, 2010

Added even more CO pictures for Arizona (Thanks Craig!) and Florida.

June 2, 2010

Added CO pictures for South Dakota (thanks B. Mitchell).

May 4, 2010

Added some more CO building pictures for Arizona (thanks Craig!).

April 21, 2010

Added some more CO buildings from Maryland.

April 16, 2010

Added some more CO building pictures for Arizona (thanks Craig!).

April 12, 2010

A long term project finally completed. Added over 150 CO buildings for Louisiana and 2 for Mississippi. Thanks to Mark in LA!

March 21, 2010

Added some more CO buildings from Maryland.

February 15, 2010

Added some more CO building pictures for Florida.

February 8, 2010

Added some more CO building pictures for New Mexico and Arizona (thanks Craig!).

November 18, 2009

Added some more CO building pictures for Alabama.

November 6, 2009

Added new CO building pictures for Alabama, Arizona (Thanks Craig!) and Florida.

October 18, 2009

Added new CO building pictures in Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

April 13, 2009

Added several CO buildings in Wisconsin (thanks Joe!) and one in Florida.

February 18, 2009

Added several CO building pictures for Wisconsin (thanks Joe!)

February 12, 2009

Debut of the Telephone Central Office Building Pictures website.


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