An apartment for rent in Fort Worth or Arlington draws calls from many strangers.
List it with an 817 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 817 numbers
Get an 817 phone number for Fort Worth and Arlington.
Ask for 817 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Fort Worth and the cities around it. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get an 817 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 817 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
(817) 555-0129
Forwarding
Used trailer
(817) 555-0163
Texts only
Roofing quote
(817) 555-0112
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People ask for 817 when the search is in Fort Worth, Arlington or Weatherford.
A used truck or a trailer for sale near Weatherford brings texts from buyers all week.
Post an 817 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 Mansfield ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 817 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 817 number is from.
Area code 817 serves Fort Worth and the surrounding area, including Arlington, Grandview, Weatherford and Rhome, as the numbering administrator puts it. The 682 code is laid over the same ground.
The Public Utility Commission's exchange list for 817 includes Fort Worth, Arlington, Euless, Grapevine, North Richland Hills, Roanoke, Weatherford, Cleburne, Kennedale, Keller, Granbury and Mansfield. Wichita Falls uses 940 and Waco uses 254.
Fort Worth and Arlington, TX
Area code 817 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1953
817
This code
1997
254
Split off
1997
940
Split off
2000
682
Shares the area
- Fort Worth
- Arlington
- Weatherford
- Grapevine
- Keller
- Euless
- Mansfield
- Cleburne
- Granbury
- North Richland Hills
- Roanoke
- Azle
These are the facts about area code 817.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Fort Worth and Arlington, Texas
- In service since
- 1953
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 682 (2000)
- Codes split from it
- 254 (1997) and 940 (1997)
817 entered service in 1953, split from 214. On May 25, 1997 it was divided three ways: Fort Worth and Arlington kept 817, the north took 940 and the south around Waco took 254.
The Public Utility Commission approved an overlay in December 1999, and 682 was laid over 817, entering service on October 7, 2000. Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on that day.
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People ask these questions about getting an 817 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 817 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 Texas: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Fort Worth can put an 817 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 817 area takes in Fort Worth, Arlington, Weatherford, Grapevine, Keller and Mansfield. 682 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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