A house for rent in Ashland or Morehead draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 606 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 606 numbers
Get a 606 phone number for Ashland and Pikeville.
Ask for 606 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Ashland, Pikeville and eastern Kentucky. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 606 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 606 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
House for rent
(606) 555-0124
Forwarding
Used ATV
(606) 555-0160
Texts only
Roofing quote
(606) 555-0105
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People ask for 606 when the search is in Ashland, Pikeville or Somerset.
A used truck or an ATV for sale near Pikeville brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 606 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 Somerset or Corbin ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 606 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 606 number is from.
Area code 606 is the eastern area of Kentucky, which the Kentucky Public Service Commission lists as including Morehead, Ashland, Pikeville and Somerset.
The numbering administrator's list for it also names Hazard, Corbin, Middlesborough, Maysville, Flatwoods, Monticello and Williamsburg, and Lexington has 859.
Ashland, Pikeville and eastern Kentucky, KY
Area code 606 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1955
606
This code
2000
859
Split off
- Ashland
- Somerset
- Pikeville
- Morehead
- Hazard
- Corbin
- Middlesborough
- Maysville
- London
- Flatwoods
- Monticello
- Williamsburg
These are the facts about area code 606.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Ashland, Pikeville and eastern Kentucky, Kentucky
- In service since
- 1955
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Codes split from it
- 859 (2000)
The Kentucky Public Service Commission says 606 was created for the eastern half of the state as a split of 502.
On April 1, 2000, 859 was split from 606 for Lexington and Northern Kentucky, and 606 kept the east. Local calls inside 606 are still dialed with seven digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 606 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 606 as the area code and give it a name, such as House for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Kentucky: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Ashland can put a 606 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 606 area takes in Ashland, Pikeville, Somerset, Morehead and Hazard.
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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