An apartment for rent in Columbia draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 573 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 573 numbers
Get a 573 phone number for Columbia and Jefferson City.
Ask for 573 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Columbia, Jefferson City and the rest of eastern Missouri. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 573 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 573 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
(573) 555-0126
Forwarding
Used truck
(573) 555-0168
Texts only
Roofing quote
(573) 555-0103
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People ask for 573 when the search is in Columbia, Jefferson City or Cape Girardeau.
A used truck or a deer stand sold on a marketplace near Rolla brings texts all week.
Post a 573 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 Jefferson City ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 573 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 573 number is from.
Area code 573 covers most of the eastern half of Missouri and includes the state capital of Jefferson City, with communities such as Columbia, Cape Girardeau, Rolla, Hannibal, Poplar Bluff, Sikeston, Farmington and Fort Leonard Wood, as the numbering administrator puts it.
The 235 code is laid over the same area. The St. Louis area kept 314, and Kansas City uses 816.
Columbia, Jefferson City and eastern Missouri, MO
Area code 573 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
314
Split from
1996
573
This code
2024
235
Shares the area
- Columbia
- Jefferson City
- Cape Girardeau
- Rolla
- Farmington
- Hannibal
- Poplar Bluff
- Sikeston
- Fulton
- Mexico
- Osage Beach
- Fort Leonard Wood
These are the facts about area code 573.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Columbia, Jefferson City and eastern Missouri, Missouri
- In service since
- 1996
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 235 (2024)
- Split from
- 314 (1947)
573 was split from 314 and entered service on January 7, 1996, when Jefferson City, Columbia and the other towns outside St. Louis took the new code.
The Public Service Commission ordered an overlay on April 21, 2022. Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on February 24, 2024, and 235 entered service on March 24, 2024.
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People ask these questions about getting a 573 number.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 573 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 Missouri: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Columbia can put a 573 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 573 area takes in Columbia, Jefferson City, Cape Girardeau, Rolla, Hannibal and Poplar Bluff. 235 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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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-596, June 17, 2022
- Missouri Public Service Commission, order directing an overlay plan for the 573 area code, file TO-2022-0250, April 21, 2022
- Missouri Public Service Commission, report and order on the 314 area code split, cases TO-95-289 and TO-95-290, July 5, 1995
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