A house for rent in Jonesboro or Paragould draws calls from many strangers.
List it with an 870 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 870 numbers
Get an 870 phone number for Jonesboro and Pine Bluff.
Ask for 870 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Jonesboro, Pine Bluff and northern, eastern and southern Arkansas. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get an 870 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 870 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
(870) 555-0127
Forwarding
Used duck boat
(870) 555-0163
Texts only
Roofing quote
(870) 555-0102
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People ask for 870 when the search is in Jonesboro, Pine Bluff or Texarkana.
A used truck or a duck boat for sale near Pine Bluff brings texts from buyers all week.
Post an 870 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 Mountain Home or El Dorado ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 870 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where an 870 number is from.
Area code 870 covers the northern, eastern and southern portions of Arkansas, and the communities include El Dorado, Mountain Home, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff, Monticello and Magnolia, as the Arkansas Public Service Commission puts it.
The 327 code is laid over the same area, and Little Rock and Fort Smith have their own codes.
Jonesboro, Pine Bluff and northern, eastern and southern Arkansas, AR
Area code 870 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
501
Split from
1997
870
This code
2024
327
Shares the area
- Jonesboro
- Pine Bluff
- Paragould
- Texarkana
- West Memphis
- El Dorado
- Harrison
- Mountain Home
- Blytheville
- Batesville
- Monticello
- Magnolia
These are the facts about area code 870.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Jonesboro, Pine Bluff and northern, eastern and southern Arkansas, Arkansas
- In service since
- 1997
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 327 (2024)
- Split from
- 501 (1947)
870 was split from 501 and entered service on April 14, 1997. Little Rock and the communities in the central and northwestern parts of the state kept 501.
The Arkansas Public Service Commission ordered a 327 overlay, put it on hold in 2012 and approved it again on January 27, 2022. Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on January 19, 2024, and 327 entered service on February 20, 2024.
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People ask these questions about getting an 870 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 870 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 Arkansas: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Jonesboro can put an 870 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 870 area takes in Jonesboro, Pine Bluff, El Dorado, Mountain Home and Magnolia. 327 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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