An apartment for rent in Fayetteville or Bentonville draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 479 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 479 numbers
Get a 479 phone number for Fort Smith and Fayetteville.
Ask for 479 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Fort Smith, Fayetteville and western Arkansas. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 479 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 479 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
(479) 555-0128
Forwarding
Used bass boat
(479) 555-0164
Texts only
Roofing quote
(479) 555-0109
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People ask for 479 when the search is in Fort Smith, Fayetteville or Bentonville.
A used truck or a bass boat for sale near Fort Smith brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 479 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 Springdale or Rogers ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 479 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 479 number is from.
Area code 479 serves the western portion of the old 501 area, and the places include Bentonville, Clarksville, Fort Smith, Hector, Springdale and Fayetteville, as the numbering administrator puts it.
Little Rock and central Arkansas kept 501, and the rest of the state uses 870.
Fort Smith, Fayetteville and western Arkansas, AR
Area code 479 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
501
Split from
2002
479
This code
- Fort Smith
- Fayetteville
- Springdale
- Rogers
- Bentonville
- Russellville
- Van Buren
- Siloam Springs
- Clarksville
- Mena
- Alma
- Eureka Springs
These are the facts about area code 479.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Fort Smith, Fayetteville and western Arkansas, Arkansas
- In service since
- 2002
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 501 (1947)
479 was split from 501 and entered service on January 19, 2002. The Arkansas Public Service Commission ordered the split on July 10, 2001, and set the final boundary on September 13, 2001, in docket 00-267-U.
Using 479 became mandatory on July 20, 2002. A local call inside 479 is dialed with seven digits, and a local call into 501 or 870 takes ten.
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People ask these questions about getting a 479 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 479 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 Arkansas: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Fort Smith can put a 479 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 479 area takes in Fort Smith, Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers and Bentonville.
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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