An apartment for rent in Fort Wayne or New Haven draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 260 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 260 numbers
Get a 260 phone number for Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana.
Ask for 260 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as northeast Indiana, from Fort Wayne to Wabash. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 260 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 260 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
(260) 555-0136
Forwarding
Boat for sale
(260) 555-0107
Texts only
Wedding quotes
(260) 555-0158
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People ask for 260 when the search is in Fort Wayne, Huntington or Auburn.
A used truck or a boat for sale near Auburn draws buyers all season.
Post a 260 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A wedding or a catering order in Huntington ends in follow-up calls.
Give each vendor its own 260 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 260 number is from.
Area code 260 serves the northeast third of Indiana, which includes the Fort Wayne area, as the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission puts it.
The commission's 2001 release names Fort Wayne, Wabash, Portland, North Manchester, Lagrange, Silver Lake and Warren as 260 cities, and the numbering administrator's rate center map adds Huntington, Auburn, Kendallville, Angola, Bluffton and Decatur.
Northeast Indiana, IN
Area code 260 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1948
219
Split from
2002
260
This code
- Fort Wayne
- Huntington
- New Haven
- Auburn
- Bluffton
- Kendallville
- Columbia City
- Wabash
- Decatur
- Angola
- Portland
- North Manchester
These are the facts about area code 260.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Northeast Indiana, Indiana
- In service since
- 2002
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 219 (1948)
The commission split the old 219 area three ways on June 14, 2001. The northeast third took 260, which entered service on January 15, 2002, and the use of 260 became mandatory on June 14, 2002.
Indiana's 2021 move to ten-digit local dialing covered 219 and 574 only, so a local call inside 260 can still be dialed with seven digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 260 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 260 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 Indiana: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Fort Wayne can put a 260 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 260 area takes in Fort Wayne, Huntington, Wabash, Auburn and Angola.
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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More area codes
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.
- North American Numbering Plan Administrator, area code database
- NANPA planning letter PL-309, October 31, 2001
- Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, news release on splitting the 219 area code, June 14, 2001
- Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, news release on the new area codes for northern Indiana, July 11, 2001
- Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, ten-digit dialing for the 219 and 574 area codes
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