A house for rent in Bristol or Abingdon draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 276 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 276 numbers
Get a 276 phone number for Bristol, Martinsville and Abingdon.
Ask for 276 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Bristol, Martinsville, Abingdon and the towns around them. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 276 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 276 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
House for rent
(276) 555-0125
Forwarding
Used four-wheeler
(276) 555-0163
Texts only
Roofing quote
(276) 555-0108
Blocked
People ask for 276 when the search is in Bristol, Martinsville or Abingdon.
A used truck or a four-wheeler for sale near Wytheville or Marion brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 276 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A roofing quote or a moving job in Martinsville or Galax ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 276 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 276 number is from.
Area code 276 is for Southwest Virginia, as the numbering administrator puts it, and its map of the split marks Bristol, Martinsville, Abingdon, Wytheville, Galax and Marion.
Roanoke and the upper Shenandoah Valley kept 540.
Bristol, Martinsville and Abingdon, VA
Area code 276 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1995
540
Split from
2001
276
This code
- Bristol
- Martinsville
- Abingdon
- Wytheville
- Galax
- Marion
- Richlands
- Norton
- Lebanon
- Wise
- Tazewell
- Big Stone Gap
These are the facts about area code 276.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Bristol, Martinsville and Abingdon, Virginia
- In service since
- 2001
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 540 (1995)
On February 22, 2001, the Virginia State Corporation Commission approved splitting 540. Southwest Virginia got 276, and the Roanoke area kept 540.
276 entered service on September 1, 2001, and using it became mandatory on March 16, 2002. Every local call has needed all ten digits since October 24, 2021, when 276 was one of the codes that moved for the 988 hotline.
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People ask these questions about getting a 276 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 276 as the area code and give it a name, such as House for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Virginia: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Bristol can put a 276 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 276 area takes in Bristol, Martinsville, Abingdon, Wytheville and Galax.
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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