A room for rent in Lubbock or Amarillo draws calls from many strangers.
List it with an 806 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the room is taken.
Local 806 numbers
Get an 806 phone number for Lubbock and Amarillo.
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This is how you get an 806 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 806 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
(806) 555-0126
Forwarding
Used horse trailer
(806) 555-0162
Texts only
Roof repair quote
(806) 555-0108
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People ask for 806 when the search is in Lubbock, Amarillo or Canyon.
A used truck or a horse trailer for sale near Amarillo brings texts from buyers all week.
Post an 806 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A roof repair or moving quote in Lubbock ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 806 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 806 number is from.
Area code 806 is the Amarillo and Lubbock region, as the Texas Public Utility Commission describes it, and the commission's exchange list also names Plainview, Pampa, Hereford, Canyon, Dumas and Borger.
Lubbock and Amarillo were part of 915 until 806 was created from it.
Lubbock and Amarillo, TX
Area code 806 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1957
806
This code
- Lubbock
- Amarillo
- Plainview
- Canyon
- Pampa
- Hereford
- Dumas
- Levelland
- Borger
- Brownfield
- Wolfforth
- Dalhart
These are the facts about area code 806.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Lubbock and Amarillo, Texas
- In service since
- 1957
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
806 is listed in the NANPA database as in service since 1957, and the Texas Public Utility Commission lists it as a split of the Amarillo and Lubbock region from 915. It has never been overlaid or split again.
Local calls inside 806 were dialed with seven digits until all ten digits became required in October 2021, when 806 was one of the Texas codes that moved for the 988 hotline.
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People ask these questions about getting an 806 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 806 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 Texas: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Lubbock can put an 806 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 806 area takes in Lubbock, Amarillo, Plainview, Pampa and Hereford.
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 planning letter PL-556, January 8, 2021
- Public Utility Commission of Texas, Texas area code chronology
- Public Utility Commission of Texas, news release of October 11, 2021 on ten-digit local dialing in the 254, 361, 409, 806, 830, 915 and 940 area codes
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