 On February 12, 1997, the NANPA announced that 913 would be cut back to the Kansas side of the Kansas City area, while most of the western portion of the old 913 plan area–everything from Lawrence westward–was split off as area code 785, effective on July 20, 1997.Permissive dialing of 913 continued across northern Kansas until October 3, 1998.The bulk of 785's landlines and cell phones are in the eastern portion, in and around Topeka and Lawrence.