An apartment for rent in Denton or Sanger draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 940 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 940 numbers
Get a 940 phone number for Wichita Falls and Denton.
Ask for 940 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Wichita Falls, Denton and the towns around them. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 940 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 940 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
(940) 555-0123
Forwarding
Used truck
(940) 555-0161
Texts only
Lawn care quote
(940) 555-0108
Blocked
People ask for 940 when the search is in Wichita Falls, Denton or Gainesville.
A used truck or a stock trailer for sale near Wichita Falls or Vernon brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 940 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A lawn care or moving quote in Gainesville or Decatur ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 940 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 940 number is from.
Area code 940 took the north section of the old 817 area, including Wichita Falls and Denton, as the numbering administrator puts it.
Fort Worth and Arlington kept 817, and Waco has 254.
Wichita Falls and Denton, TX
Area code 940 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1953
817
Split from
1997
940
This code
- Denton
- Wichita Falls
- Gainesville
- Burkburnett
- Sanger
- Vernon
- Aubrey
- Decatur
- Graham
- Pilot Point
- Lake Dallas
- Justin
These are the facts about area code 940.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Wichita Falls and Denton, Texas
- In service since
- 1997
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- No other code
- Split from
- 817 (1953)
940 and 254 were created on May 25, 1997, when the old 817 area was split three ways. 817 kept Fort Worth and Arlington.
Until August 24, 1997, either 817 or 940 reached a 940 number, and after that the old code no longer worked for those numbers. Every local call has needed all ten digits since October 2021, when 940 was one of the codes that moved for the 988 hotline.
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People ask these questions about getting a 940 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 940 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 Denton can put a 940 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 940 area takes in Wichita Falls, Denton, Gainesville, Burkburnett and Decatur.
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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More area codes
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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