# Area code 985

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Telephone area codes for southeast Louisiana

**Area code 985** as of 2001–2007.

**Area code 985** is the telephone [area code](/source/NPA_code) in the [North American Numbering Plan](/source/North_American_Numbering_Plan) for southeastern [Louisiana](/source/Louisiana), excluding the inner ring of the [New Orleans](/source/New_Orleans) area. The area code was created in 2001 in an [area code split](/source/Area_code_split) of [area code 504](/source/Area_code_504).

Area code 985 also used to include areas southeast of New Orleans. However, in 2007, these areas switched back to 504. These communities are on both sides of the Mississippi River in "lower" [Plaquemines Parish](/source/Plaquemines_Parish), including [Pointe à la Hache](/source/Pointe_%C3%A0_la_Hache%2C_Louisiana) on the east bank, with [Port Sulphur](/source/Port_Sulphur%2C_Louisiana), [Buras](/source/Buras-Triumph%2C_Louisiana), and [Boothville](/source/Boothville-Venice%2C_Louisiana) on the west bank. The area's local switching facilities were almost destroyed due to flooding from [Hurricane Katrina](/source/Hurricane_Katrina). Since the nearest switching facilities were in New Orleans, it was decided to put these downriver communities back in 504. Permissive use of 504 alongside 985 to reach these areas once again began on July 29, 2007; mandatory use of 504 began on July 1, 2008.

## Service area

The service area includes the following cities:

- [Abita Springs](/source/Abita_Springs%2C_Louisiana)

- [Amite](/source/Amite%2C_Louisiana)

- [Angie](/source/Angie%2C_Louisiana)

- [Bayou L'Ourse](/source/Bayou_L'Ourse%2C_Louisiana)

- [Berwick](/source/Berwick%2C_Louisiana)

- [Bogalusa](/source/Bogalusa%2C_Louisiana)

- [Bourg](/source/Bourg%2C_Louisiana)

- [Boutte](/source/Boutte%2C_Louisiana)

- [Covington](/source/Covington%2C_Louisiana)

- [Destrehan](/source/Destrehan%2C_Louisiana)

- [Edgard](/source/Edgard%2C_Louisiana)

- [Folsom](/source/Folsom%2C_Louisiana)

- [Franklinton](/source/Franklinton%2C_Louisiana)

- [Galliano](/source/Galliano%2C_Louisiana)

- [Gibson](/source/Gibson%2C_Louisiana)

- [Golden Meadow](/source/Golden_Meadow%2C_Louisiana)

- [Grand Isle](/source/Grand_Isle%2C_Louisiana)

- [Hammond](/source/Hammond%2C_Louisiana)

- [Houma](/source/Houma%2C_Louisiana)

- [Independence](/source/Independence%2C_Louisiana)

- [Kentwood](/source/Kentwood%2C_Louisiana)

- [Lacombe](/source/Lacombe%2C_Louisiana)

- [LaPlace](/source/LaPlace%2C_Louisiana)

- [Lockport](/source/Lockport%2C_Louisiana)

- [Luling](/source/Luling%2C_Louisiana)

- [Mandeville](/source/Mandeville%2C_Louisiana)

- [Madisonville](/source/Madisonville%2C_Louisiana)

- [Morgan City](/source/Morgan_City%2C_Louisiana)

- [Napoleonville](/source/Napoleonville%2C_Louisiana)

- [Norco](/source/Norco%2C_Louisiana)

- [Patterson](/source/Patterson%2C_Louisiana)

- [Pearl River](/source/Pearl_River%2C_Louisiana)

- [Ponchatoula](/source/Ponchatoula%2C_Louisiana)

- [Raceland](/source/Raceland%2C_Louisiana)

- [Reserve](/source/Reserve%2C_Louisiana)

- [Robert](/source/Robert%2C_Louisiana)

- [Slidell](/source/Slidell%2C_Louisiana)

- [Thibodaux](/source/Thibodaux%2C_Louisiana)

- [Tickfaw](/source/Tickfaw%2C_Louisiana)

- [Varnado](/source/Varnado%2C_Louisiana)

## See also

- [List of Louisiana area codes](/source/List_of_Louisiana_area_codes)

## References

- [Area code history.](https://web.archive.org/web/20020806110503/http://areacode-info.com/!history/default.htm) AreaCode-Info.com.

## External links

- ["Area Code Maps"](https://www.nanpa.com/resources/area-code-maps). [North American Numbering Plan Administrator](/source/North_American_Numbering_Plan_Administrator).

- [List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 985 Area Code](https://web.archive.org/web/20081012012126/http://www.areacodedownload.com/985/index.html)

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Louisiana area codes: 225, 318/457, 337, 504, 985 North: 225, 601/769 West: 225, 337 985 East: 228, 504, 601/769 South: 504, Gulf of Mexico Mississippi area codes: 228, 601/769, 471/662

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