An apartment for rent in Knoxville or Maryville draws calls from many strangers.
List it with an 865 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 865 numbers
Get an 865 phone number for Knoxville.
Ask for 865 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Knoxville and the towns 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 865 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 865 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
(865) 555-0122
Forwarding
Game day tickets
(865) 555-0163
Texts only
Roofing quote
(865) 555-0108
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People ask for 865 when the search is in Knoxville, Maryville or Oak Ridge.
Game day tickets or a used car sold on a marketplace near Knoxville bring texts all week.
Post an 865 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A cabin rental or a roofing quote in Sevierville or Gatlinburg ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 865 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 865 number is from.
Area code 865 serves the central portion of the old 423 area, and the numbering administrator's list of its communities starts with Knoxville and includes Oak Ridge, Maryville, Sevierville, Lenoir City, Clinton, Jefferson City and Gatlinburg.
The southwestern and northeastern portions of the old area kept 423.
Knoxville, TN
Area code 865 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1995
423
Split from
1999
865
This code
- Knoxville
- Oak Ridge
- Maryville
- Sevierville
- Lenoir City
- Clinton
- Jefferson City
- Loudon
- Kingston
- Harriman
- Rockwood
- Gatlinburg
These are the facts about area code 865.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- In service since
- 1999
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 423 (1995)
865 was split from 423 and entered service on November 1, 1999, when the central portion of the old 423 area took the new code.
Local calls inside 865 were dialed with seven digits until ten digits became mandatory on October 24, 2021, when 865 was one of the codes that moved for the 988 hotline.
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People ask these questions about getting an 865 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 865 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 Tennessee: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Knoxville can put an 865 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 865 area takes in Knoxville, Maryville, Oak Ridge, Sevierville and Lenoir City.
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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