An apartment or a room for rent near a base or a campus draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 719 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 719 numbers
Get a 719 phone number for Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
Ask for 719 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Colorado Springs and Pueblo. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 719 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 719 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
(719) 555-0126
Forwarding
Used camper
(719) 555-0159
Texts only
Roofing quote
(719) 555-0118
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People ask for 719 when the search is in Colorado Springs or Pueblo.
A used truck or a camper for sale in Pueblo brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 719 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 Colorado Springs ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 719 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 719 number is from.
Area code 719 is the only code in its area: no second code has been laid over it. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission says it was introduced in southeast Colorado.
The 1987 letter that announced it names Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Leadville and Alamosa, and the numbering administrator's state map also marks Trinidad. Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins stayed with 303.
Colorado Springs and Pueblo, CO
Area code 719 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
303
Split from
1988
719
This code
- Colorado Springs
- Pueblo
- Alamosa
- Leadville
- Trinidad
These are the facts about area code 719.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado
- In service since
- 1988
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 303 (1947)
719 was split from 303 and entered service on March 5, 1988. Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Grand Junction and Durango kept 303, and Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Leadville and Alamosa took the new code.
In 1995 the north and west of the state were split from 303 as 970, which did not change 719. Ten-digit dialing for local calls became mandatory on October 24, 2021.
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People ask these questions about getting a 719 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 719 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 Colorado: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Colorado Springs can put a 719 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 719 area takes in Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Leadville and Alamosa.
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 industry letter IL-87/03-045 on the split of the 303 area code, March 27, 1987
- NANPA planning letter PL-556, January 8, 2021
- Colorado Public Utilities Commission, news release on the area code overlay plan, November 13, 2020
- Colorado Public Utilities Commission, new area code 748 frequently asked questions
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