A cabin or a room for rent near Morgantown draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 304 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 304 numbers
Get a 304 phone number for West Virginia.
Ask for 304 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as West Virginia, from Wheeling to Bluefield. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 304 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 304 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
Cabin for rent
(304) 555-0139
Forwarding
Used ATV
(304) 555-0169
Texts only
Roofing quote
(304) 555-0116
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People ask for 304 when the search is anywhere in West Virginia.
A used truck or an ATV for sale in Beckley brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 304 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 Charleston ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 304 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 304 number is from.
Area code 304 serves the whole state of West Virginia, as the numbering administrator puts it, and 681 is laid over the same ground.
The administrator's rate center map labels Charleston, Huntington, Parkersburg, Morgantown, Wheeling, Weirton, Fairmont, Martinsburg, Beckley, Clarksburg, Bluefield and Princeton among many more.
West Virginia, WV
Area code 304 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
304
This code
2009
681
Shares the area
- Charleston
- Huntington
- Parkersburg
- Morgantown
- Wheeling
- Weirton
- Fairmont
- Martinsburg
- Beckley
- Clarksburg
- Bluefield
- Princeton
These are the facts about area code 304.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- West Virginia, West Virginia
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 681 (2009)
304 is the original West Virginia area code, in service since 1947, and it has never been split. A split along the line between Charleston and Clarksburg was ordered on January 29, 2008, then reversed on February 13, 2008 in favor of an overlay.
681 was laid over 304 and entered service on March 28, 2009. Ten-digit dialing for local calls became mandatory on February 28, 2009.
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People ask these questions about getting a 304 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 304 as the area code and give it a name, such as Cabin for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in West Virginia: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Charleston can put a 304 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 304 area is the whole state, from Charleston, Huntington and Parkersburg to Morgantown and Wheeling. 681 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. Read October 21, 2026.
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