A house for rent in Southaven or Oxford draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 662 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 662 numbers
Get a 662 phone number for Tupelo and northern Mississippi.
Ask for 662 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Tupelo and northern Mississippi. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 662 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 662 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
(662) 555-0127
Forwarding
Used fishing boat
(662) 555-0163
Texts only
Roofing quote
(662) 555-0104
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People ask for 662 when the search is in Southaven, Tupelo or Oxford.
A used truck or a fishing boat for sale near Tupelo brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 662 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 Starkville ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 662 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 662 number is from.
Area code 662 serves the northern part of Mississippi, with communities such as Southaven, Tupelo, Greenwood, Greenville, Oxford, Horn Lake, Starkville, Columbus and Corinth, as the numbering administrator puts it.
The 471 code is laid over the same area. Tennessee's 901 lies to the north, and 601 and 769 cover central Mississippi to the south.
Tupelo and northern Mississippi, MS
Area code 662 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
601
Split from
1999
662
This code
2026
471
Shares the area
- Southaven
- Olive Branch
- Tupelo
- Horn Lake
- Oxford
- Greenville
- Starkville
- Columbus
- Hernando
- Corinth
- Clarksdale
- Greenwood
These are the facts about area code 662.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Tupelo and northern Mississippi, Mississippi
- In service since
- 1999
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 471 (2026)
- Split from
- 601 (1947)
662 was split from 601 and entered service on April 19, 1999, when the north took the new code. 601 was the original code for the whole state.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls replaced seven digits between October 2021 and July 2022. The Public Service Commission approved a 471 overlay on June 13, 2024, and 471 entered service on January 30, 2026.
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People ask these questions about getting a 662 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 662 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 Mississippi: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Tupelo can put a 662 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 662 area takes in Southaven, Tupelo, Oxford, Starkville, Columbus and Greenville. 471 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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