A room for rent near a campus in Tuscaloosa or Birmingham draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 659 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 659 numbers
Get a 659 phone number for Birmingham and Tuscaloosa.
Ask for 659 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Birmingham, Tuscaloosa and the towns around them. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 659 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 659 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
(659) 555-0131
Forwarding
Game tickets
(659) 555-0167
Texts only
Roofing quotes
(659) 555-0108
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People ask for 659 when the search is in Birmingham, Tuscaloosa or Alabaster.
A used truck, a boat or a pair of game tickets for sale near Trussville or Bessemer brings texts all week.
Post a 659 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A roofing quote or a wedding booking in Alabaster or Jasper ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 659 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 659 number is from.
Area code 659 is an all-services overlay of 205, so it covers the same area, which the numbering administrator lists as communities such as Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Bessemer, Jasper and Fayette.
Its rate center map adds Alabaster, Trussville, Calera, Chelsea, Gardendale, Pell City, Leeds and Clanton. Huntsville uses 256 and 938, and Montgomery uses 334.
Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, AL
Area code 659 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
205
Shares the area
2019
659
This code
- Birmingham
- Tuscaloosa
- Alabaster
- Trussville
- Bessemer
- Calera
- Chelsea
- Gardendale
- Jasper
- Pell City
- Leeds
- Clanton
These are the facts about area code 659.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- In service since
- 2019
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 205 (1947)
The Alabama Public Service Commission first ordered an overlay for the 205 area on April 2, 2001, then put it on hold on July 10, 2001. It approved the overlay again on August 7, 2018.
Every local call has needed all ten digits since October 12, 2019, and 659 entered service on November 12, 2019, over the area that already had 205.
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People ask these questions about getting a 659 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 659 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 Alabama: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a baker in Birmingham can put a 659 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 659 area takes in Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Bessemer, Jasper and Alabaster. 205 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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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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