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Get a 240 phone number for Silver Spring, Frederick and Hagerstown.

Ask for 240 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as western Maryland and the suburbs outside Washington. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.

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This is how you get a 240 number.

  1. Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
  2. Type 240 as the area code and give the number a name.
  3. Hand it out. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and texts land in your inbox.
  4. Burn it in one tap when you are done. Calls and texts to it stop at once.
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People ask for 240 when the search is in Montgomery County or western Maryland.

An apartment near a Metro stop draws calls from many strangers.

List it with a 240 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.

A used car or a bike for sale in Frederick brings texts all week.

Post a 240 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.

A moving job or a catering order ends in follow-up calls.

Give each company its own 240 number. Block the ones you did not choose.

This is where a 240 number is from.

Area code 240 covers the western part of Maryland, on exactly the same ground as 301: Allegany, Charles, Garrett, Montgomery, Prince George's, St. Mary's and Washington counties, with parts of several more.

The numbering administrator names Aspen Hill, Bethesda, Bowie, Cumberland, Frederick, Gaithersburg, Germantown, Hagerstown, Potomac, Silver Spring, Waldorf and Wheaton among the places it serves.

  • Silver Spring
  • Bethesda
  • Frederick
  • Hagerstown
  • Gaithersburg
  • Germantown
  • Bowie
  • Waldorf
  • Cumberland
  • Wheaton
  • Potomac
  • Aspen Hill

These are the facts about area code 240.

From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.

Place
Silver Spring, Frederick and Hagerstown, Maryland
In service since
1997
Local calls are dialed with
Ten digits
Shares its area with
301 (1947) and 227 (2023)

240 was never split from 301: it is a second code laid over 301, which has been in service since 1947. The Maryland Public Service Commission approved the overlay, and 240 entered service on June 1, 1997.

A third code, 227, was laid over the same area and entered service on June 14, 2023. Callers here have dialed ten digits for local calls since the overlay began.

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People ask these questions about getting a 240 number.

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Create a number in your dashboard, type 240 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 Maryland: calls ring the phone you already carry.

Yes, for taking calls and texts. A tutor, a mover or a baker in Gaithersburg can put a 240 number on the flyer and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.

Yes. The 240 area takes in Silver Spring, Bethesda, Frederick, Hagerstown, Gaithersburg and Germantown. 301 and 227 numbers cover the same area.

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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