An apartment for rent in Fargo or Grand Forks draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 701 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 701 numbers
Get a 701 phone number for Fargo and Bismarck.
Ask for 701 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Fargo, Bismarck and the rest of North Dakota. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 701 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 701 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
(701) 555-0126
Forwarding
Used snowmobile
(701) 555-0162
Texts only
Roofing quote
(701) 555-0105
Blocked
People ask for 701 when the search is in Fargo, Bismarck or Grand Forks.
A used truck or a snowmobile for sale near Bismarck or Minot brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 701 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A roofing quote or a moving job in Williston or Dickinson ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 701 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 701 number is from.
Area code 701 is the only area code in North Dakota, and the numbering administrator's map shows it over the whole state, with Fargo, Bismarck, Grand Forks, Minot, Williston, Dickinson and Jamestown marked.
Its code records show the most numbers in Fargo, Bismarck, Grand Forks and Minot.
Fargo, Bismarck and all of North Dakota, ND
Area code 701 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
701
This code
- Fargo
- Bismarck
- Grand Forks
- Minot
- Williston
- Dickinson
- Jamestown
- Wahpeton
- Devils Lake
- Valley City
These are the facts about area code 701.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Fargo, Bismarck and all of North Dakota, North Dakota
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
701 has been in service since 1947, and it has never been split or overlaid.
In 2021 the North Dakota Public Service Commission cleared the state from the list of codes that had to move to ten digits for the 988 hotline, so a local call inside 701 is still dialed with seven digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 701 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 701 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 North Dakota: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Fargo can put a 701 number on the flyer and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.
Yes. 701 is the only area code in North Dakota, so it covers Fargo, Bismarck, Grand Forks, Minot and every other town in the state.
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.
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