A house for rent in Newark or Lancaster draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 740 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 740 numbers
Get a 740 phone number for Newark, Lancaster and Athens.
Ask for 740 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as southeast and central Ohio, from Delaware to Marietta. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 740 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 740 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
(740) 555-0135
Forwarding
Used camper
(740) 555-0164
Texts only
Roofing quote
(740) 555-0109
Blocked
People ask for 740 when the search is in Newark, Lancaster or Athens.
A used truck or a camper for sale near Zanesville brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 740 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 Marietta ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 740 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 740 number is from.
Area code 740 covers the southeastern portion of Ohio, serving Athens, Cambridge, Delaware, Jackson, Lancaster, Marion, Newark, Marietta, Portsmouth and Zanesville, as the numbering administrator puts it. The 220 code is laid over the same area.
Columbus and the rest of Franklin County are not in it and use 614.
Southeast and central Ohio, OH
Area code 740 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
614
Split from
1997
740
This code
2015
220
Shares the area
- Newark
- Delaware
- Lancaster
- Marion
- Zanesville
- Chillicothe
- Athens
- Portsmouth
- Marietta
- Cambridge
- Jackson
These are the facts about area code 740.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Southeast and central Ohio, Ohio
- In service since
- 1997
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 220 (2015)
- Split from
- 614 (1947)
740 was split from 614 and entered service on December 6, 1997. Columbus and the rest of Franklin County kept 614, and the area around it took the new code.
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved an overlay in December 2013, and 220 entered service on April 22, 2015. Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on March 21, 2015.
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People ask these questions about getting a 740 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 740 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 Ohio: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Newark can put a 740 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 740 area takes in Newark, Delaware, Lancaster, Marion, Zanesville and Athens. 220 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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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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