An apartment for rent in Memphis or Collierville draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 901 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 901 numbers
Get a 901 phone number for Memphis.
Ask for 901 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Memphis 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 a 901 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 901 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
(901) 555-0124
Forwarding
Used truck
(901) 555-0168
Texts only
Roofing quote
(901) 555-0117
Blocked
People ask for 901 when the search is in Memphis, Collierville or Millington.
A used truck or a boat for sale near Millington brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 901 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 Arlington ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 901 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 901 number is from.
Area code 901 serves Fayette, Shelby and Tipton counties, as the numbering administrator puts it. It has never had a second code laid over it.
The administrator's rate center list names Memphis, Collierville, Millington, Covington, Arlington, Somerville, Munford, Moscow, Mason, Lagrange and Rosemark. Nashville uses 615, and Jackson uses 731.
Memphis, TN
Area code 901 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
901
This code
2001
731
Split off
- Memphis
- Collierville
- Millington
- Covington
- Arlington
- Somerville
- Munford
- Moscow
- Mason
- Lagrange
- Rosemark
These are the facts about area code 901.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Memphis, Tennessee
- In service since
- 1947
- Local calls are dialed with
- Seven digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Codes split from it
- 731 (2001)
901 is one of the original codes of 1947, and it once covered much more of the state. On February 12, 2001 the rest of the area was split off as 731, and Fayette, Shelby and Tipton counties kept 901.
Local calls inside 901 are still dialed with seven digits, as the numbering administrator records it, and calls to another area code take all ten.
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People ask these questions about getting a 901 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 901 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 Memphis can put a 901 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 901 area takes in Memphis, Collierville, Millington, Covington, Arlington and Somerville.
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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