A room for rent near a campus in Dubuque or Davenport draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 563 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 563 numbers
Get a 563 phone number for Davenport, Dubuque and Clinton.
Ask for 563 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as eastern Iowa, from Davenport to Dubuque. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 563 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 563 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
Room for rent
(563) 555-0130
Forwarding
Boat for sale
(563) 555-0164
Texts only
Wedding quotes
(563) 555-0103
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People ask for 563 when the search is in Davenport, Dubuque or Clinton.
A used truck, a boat or a camper for sale near Muscatine or Clinton draws buyers all season.
Post a 563 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A wedding or a catering order in Decorah or Maquoketa ends in follow-up calls.
Give each vendor its own 563 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 563 number is from.
Area code 563 serves the eastern part of Iowa along the Wisconsin, Illinois and southeastern Minnesota borders, as the numbering administrator puts it.
The state's official 2003 phone directory prints Davenport, Dubuque, Clinton, Muscatine, Decorah and Maquoketa under 563. Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Waterloo kept 319.
Davenport, Dubuque and Clinton, IA
Area code 563 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
319
Split from
2001
563
This code
- Davenport
- Dubuque
- Clinton
- Muscatine
- Decorah
- Eldridge
- Maquoketa
- De Witt
- Manchester
- Le Claire
- Dyersville
- Cresco
These are the facts about area code 563.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Davenport, Dubuque and Clinton, Iowa
- In service since
- 2001
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 319 (1947)
On November 16, 2000, the Iowa Utilities Board adopted a geographic split of 319. 563 entered service on March 25, 2001, and its use became mandatory on December 2, 2001.
A local call inside 563 is still dialed with seven digits, and a local call to another area code, including 319, takes ten.
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People ask these questions about getting a 563 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 563 as the area code and give it a name, such as Room for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Iowa: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Davenport can put a 563 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 563 area takes in Davenport, Dubuque, Clinton, Muscatine and Decorah. Cedar Rapids and Iowa City use 319.
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-253, January 2, 2001
- Iowa Utilities Board, annual report for 2000, the 319 area code split
- Iowa Utilities Board, annual report for 2001, the 563 area code start
- State of Iowa, official metro area telephone directory, 2003
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