An apartment for rent in Little Rock or Conway draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 501 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 501 numbers
Get a 501 phone number for Little Rock and central Arkansas.
Ask for 501 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Little Rock and central 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 501 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 501 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
(501) 555-0138
Forwarding
Used boat
(501) 555-0171
Texts only
Roofing quote
(501) 555-0105
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People ask for 501 when the search is in Little Rock, Conway or Hot Springs.
A used truck or a fishing boat for sale near Cabot brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 501 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 Hot Springs ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 501 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 501 number is from.
Area code 501 serves the Greater Little Rock area, as the Arkansas Public Service Commission put it when it kept the code there. It has never had a second code laid over it.
The administrator's rate center list for 501 includes Little Rock, Conway, Hot Springs, Benton, Searcy, Jacksonville, Cabot, Morrilton, Heber Springs, Maumelle and Malvern. Fort Smith and Fayetteville use 479, and Jonesboro uses 870.
Little Rock and central Arkansas, AR
Area code 501 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
501
This code
1997
870
Split off
2002
479
Split off
- Little Rock
- Conway
- Hot Springs
- Benton
- Searcy
- Jacksonville
- Cabot
- Morrilton
- Heber Springs
- Maumelle
- Malvern
- Sherwood
These are the facts about area code 501.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Little Rock and central Arkansas, Arkansas
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Codes split from it
- 870 (1997) and 479 (2002)
501 was assigned to the whole state of Arkansas in 1947. Little Rock and the communities in the central and northwestern parts kept it when 870 took the rest of the state on April 14, 1997.
On January 19, 2002 the western part took 479, and 501 stayed with the Greater Little Rock area. Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on October 24, 2021.
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People ask these questions about getting a 501 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 501 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 Little Rock can put a 501 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 501 area takes in Little Rock, Conway, Hot Springs, Benton, Searcy and Jacksonville.
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-033, January 22, 1997
- NANPA planning letter PL-302, September 26, 2001
- NANPA planning letter PL-556, January 8, 2021
- Arkansas Public Service Commission, Order No. 6 in docket 00-267-U, July 10, 2001
- North American Numbering Plan Administrator, Arkansas area code map
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