An apartment for rent near the University of Kentucky in Lexington draws calls from many strangers.
List it with an 859 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 859 numbers
Get an 859 phone number for Lexington and Northern Kentucky.
Ask for 859 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Lexington and Northern Kentucky. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get an 859 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 859 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
(859) 555-0123
Forwarding
Used horse trailer
(859) 555-0162
Texts only
Roofing quote
(859) 555-0101
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People ask for 859 when the search is in Lexington, Covington or Richmond.
A used truck or a horse trailer sold on a marketplace near Richmond brings texts all week.
Post an 859 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A moving job or a roofing quote in Florence or Covington ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 859 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 859 number is from.
Area code 859 is the area incorporating Lexington and Northern Kentucky, as the Public Service Commission describes it, with towns such as Richmond, Winchester, Covington and Danville.
The numbering administrator's list of exchanges that moved to 859 also shows Florence, Nicholasville, Independence, Erlanger, Fort Thomas, Berea and Newport. Louisville uses 502, and eastern Kentucky kept 606.
Lexington and Northern Kentucky, KY
Area code 859 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1955
606
Split from
2000
859
This code
- Lexington
- Covington
- Richmond
- Florence
- Nicholasville
- Independence
- Erlanger
- Winchester
- Danville
- Fort Thomas
- Berea
- Newport
These are the facts about area code 859.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Lexington and Northern Kentucky, Kentucky
- In service since
- 2000
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 606 (1955)
859 was split from 606 and entered service on April 1, 2000. The Public Service Commission ordered the split on August 4, 1999, and using 859 became mandatory on October 1, 2000.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on October 24, 2021.
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People ask these questions about getting an 859 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 859 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 Kentucky: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Lexington can put an 859 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 859 area takes in Lexington, Covington, Richmond, Florence, Nicholasville and Winchester.
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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