An apartment for rent in Wichita or Derby draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 316 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 316 numbers
Get a 316 phone number for Wichita.
Ask for 316 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Wichita and the towns around it. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 316 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 316 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
(316) 555-0126
Forwarding
Used car
(316) 555-0165
Texts only
Roofing quote
(316) 555-0104
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People ask for 316 when the search is in Wichita, Derby or Newton.
A used car or a pair of tickets sold on a marketplace near Andover brings texts all week.
Post a 316 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A moving job or a roofing quote in El Dorado or Newton ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 316 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 316 number is from.
Area code 316 is the Wichita metropolitan local calling area, and the communities that kept it include Wichita, El Dorado, Newton, Augusta, Mulvane, Cheney, Mount Hope and Halstead, as the numbering administrator lists them.
620 took most of the rest of the old 316 area in 2001.
Wichita, KS
Area code 316 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
316
This code
2001
620
Split off
- Wichita
- Derby
- Newton
- Andover
- El Dorado
- Augusta
- Valley Center
- Mulvane
- Goddard
- Rose Hill
- Cheney
- Halstead
These are the facts about area code 316.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Wichita, Kansas
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Codes split from it
- 620 (2001)
316 has been in service since 1947, and it once served southern Kansas and the greater Wichita metropolitan area.
On February 3, 2001, 620 took most of that area and 316 kept the Wichita metropolitan local calling area. The Kansas Corporation Commission approved the split on September 5, 2000, and local calls inside 316 are still dialed with seven digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 316 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 316 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 Kansas: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Wichita can put a 316 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 316 area takes in Wichita, Derby, Newton, Andover and El Dorado.
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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