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Certified Areas of Telephone Exchanges in Kansas Pawnee City NB Haigler NB Benkelman NB Liberty NB Hubbell NB 1 Dubios NB 17 2 Danbury NB Diller NB 1 White Cloud Nappone NB Franklin NB Red Cloud NB Byron NB 7 Summerfield 1 17 Republican City NB Hardy NB Chester NB Mahaska 11 Morrill 40 Woodruff 15 15 7 Superior NB 7 Oketo Long Island 15 1 7 Narka 20 3 40 30 1 Webber 3 30 Republic 20 Hiawatha 30 Munden Hanover Burr Oak 30 Axtell 40 Highland Almena 20 Morrowville 35 Sabetha 30 Beattie 3 Robinson 40 Norcatur 35 20 Seneca 35 Herndon Oberlin 3 35 Brown 29 35 35 Lebanon Haddam Home City McDonald Atwood 35 Norton Prairie View Agra Washington Fairview Cheyenne 30 Esbon 20 Marysville 3 35 35 35 30 30 Athol Republic Belleville 35 20 Wathena Kensington 30 Mankato 35 Doniphan St Francis 30 Formoso 35 Cuba 40 Elwood Decatur 30 35 Courtland Scandia Nemaha Denton Troy 35 Rawlins Norton Smith Center 10 20 Powhattan 35 Bird City Phillips Jewell 30 35 Washington Marshall Willis 29 40 35 40 29 Bendena 35 Phillipsburg Smith Clifton 29 Jennings 35 Vermillion 38 Linn Centralia 30 Agenda 3 Wetmore Everest 3 Barnes 3 Goff Horton Ionia 20 20 40 29 Huron 20 Blue Rapids WC Frankfort 20 30 Jewell Corning 29 Randall 35 35 Netawaka 35 Waterville WC 20 Edmond Greenleaf Whiting ® Logan Gaylord 10 Palmer 35 20 38 29 Selden Lenora 30 30 30 3 Lancaster Atchison 30 35 30 Jamestown Concordia Clyde Clifton Atchison 40 Rexford 35 38 Effingham 10 38 Soldier Muscotah 30 Cawker City Wheaton 40 Downs 20 Circleville 10 3 Havensville 29 30 40 Morganville Green Onaga 20 Holton Glen Elder 3 Stockton Cloud 38 38 40 Nortonville Woodston Alton 10 Aurora Levant 35 38 40 Colby 30 30 Olsburg Easton Brewster 32 Hoxie Beloit Westmoreland Jackson 35 Osborne Leonardville 38 Denison 40 32 35 35 Glasco 3 Sherman Goodland Sheridan Hill City 30 Mitchell 38 40 Valley Falls Kanorado 35 30 Damar 38 Clay Center Emmett Winchester Thomas Menlo Graham 30 Pottawatomie Mayetta 40 32 35 40 40 Leavenworth 32 Morland Osborne Simpson 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Riverdale 35 33 18 Belle Plaine 42 Grenola 34 18 Cambridge 40 34 Moscow 34 Moline Weir 28 Harper Cherryvale West Mineral Scammon 9 Asbury MO Richfield Burden 35 Elk City 35 35 9 40 9 28 Meade Wilmore 34 36 Winfield Independence Plains 18 Sharon Mayfield Oxford Argonia Wellington 35 35 Mound Valley Rolla 35 Lake City 33 21 40 Crestline Morton Clark Medicine Lodge Attica 18 35 Cowley 40 Oswego Columbus City 28 Stevens Meade 33 Freeport 9 Hugoton Seward 35 35 Altamont 40 4 35 Ashland 21 Montgomery 28 Comanche Sumner Liberty Labette 40 Columbus Rural 39 Protection Barber Chautauqua 36 Hallowell 9 Coldwater Harper Havana 35 Corbin Cedar Vale Sedan 9 RivertonGalena Liberal 35 Dexter 36 Elkhart Anthony 21 Geuda Springs 35 35 Tyro 40 40 35 35 34 Cherokee 12 Englewood 21 36 Edna Bartlett Hazelton Coffeyville Chetopa Baxter Springs 39 Caldwell South Haven Arkansas City 35 9 9 Kiowa 33 Bluff City Dearing WC 35 40 Hardtner 33 21 21 35 Caney Treece OK 21 Hewins Elgin 35 21 36 35 35 35 Waldron Manchester OK 36 21 21 CERTIFIED AREAS OF Boundary Type 1 ALLIANT TELEPHONE COMPANY OF NB. 10 CUNNINGHAM TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC. 19 HOME TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC. 28 PIONEER TELEPHONE ASSN., INC 37 TRI-COUNTY TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION, INC. Area Code 2 BENKELMAN TELEPHONE COMPANY INC. 11 DILLER TLELPHONE COMPANY OF NB. 20 J.B.N. TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC. 29 RAINBOW TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION, INC. 38 TWIN VALLEY TELEPHONE, INC. TELEPHONE EXCHANGES Zone 3 BLUE VALLEY TELE-COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 12 ELKHART TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC. 21 KAN-OKLA TELEPHONE ASSN., INC. 30 RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE COMPANY, INC. 39 UNITED TELEPHONE ASSN., INC. IN KANSAS Exchange 4 COLUMBUS TELEPHONE CO. INC. 13 GOLDEN BELT TELEPHONE ASSOCIATION 22 LAHARPE TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC. 31 S&A TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC. 40 UNITED TELEPHONE CO. OF KANSAS - DBA CENTURY LINK Base Rate Area Zone 1 5 CONSOLIDATED COMMUNICATIONS OF KANSAS CO. 14 GORHAM TELEPHONE COMPANY 23 MADISON TELEPHONE LLC 32 S&T TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, INC.
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