An apartment for rent in Portland or Lewiston draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 207 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 207 numbers
Get a 207 phone number for Portland and all of Maine.
Ask for 207 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Maine, from Portland to Presque Isle. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 207 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 207 as the area code and give the number a name.
- Hand it out. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and texts land in your inbox.
- Burn it in one tap when you are done. Calls and texts to it stop at once.
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Your numbers
Apartment for rent
(207) 555-0127
Forwarding
Used boat
(207) 555-0162
Texts only
Roofing quote
(207) 555-0104
Blocked
People ask for 207 when the search is in Portland, Bangor or Lewiston.
A used truck or a lobster boat for sale near Brunswick brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 207 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A moving job or a roofing quote in Bangor ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 207 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 207 number is from.
Area code 207 covers the whole State of Maine, which the Maine Public Utilities Commission calls its single statewide area code. It has never been split, and no second code is laid over it.
The numbering administrator's state map labels Portland, Lewiston, Bangor, Augusta, Presque Isle, Millinocket, Calais and Rumford.
All of Maine, ME
Area code 207 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
207
This code
- Portland
- Lewiston
- Bangor
- Augusta
- Brunswick
- Biddeford
- Waterville
- Sanford
- Rockland
- Scarborough
- Auburn
- Presque Isle
These are the facts about area code 207.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- All of Maine, Maine
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
207 has been Maine's only area code since 1947. In 2020 the Public Utilities Commission opened an inquiry into preserving it.
Local calls inside 207 are still dialed with seven digits, and the 2021 national letter on ten-digit dialing does not list Maine.
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People ask these questions about getting a 207 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 207 as the area code and give it a name, such as Apartment for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Maine: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Portland can put a 207 number on the flyer and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.
Yes. Area code 207 covers the whole state, including Portland, Lewiston, Bangor, Augusta and Brunswick.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
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Every fact on this page comes from public numbering records.
The state, the dates and the related codes are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database. The places are from its planning letters and the state’s own pages. Read October 21, 2026.
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