Pick 806 if the number should read as Amarillo.
806 has been the code since 1957. The code’s page names Canyon, Pampa, Hereford, Dumas and Borger among the other places that use it.
The area code for Amarillo is 806.
Area codes in Amarillo
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806 is the one code of Amarillo. It covers the whole Texas Panhandle, and it is shared with Lubbock, to the south.
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Amarillo has one area code.
Pick 806 for Amarillo, since it is the only code in the Panhandle.
Pick 806 for both Amarillo and Lubbock.
The two cities share the code, so one number can serve both without looking out of town.
Pick 580 if the number is for western Oklahoma.
Oklahoma borders the Panhandle to the north and east. 580 was split from 405 in 1997 and took the western half of that state.
People filed 234 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the Amarillo area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 234 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 806.
- 234unwanted-call complaints named a Amarillo code
Amarillo codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with the Amarillo code.
- 1806Lubbock and Amarillo234
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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People ask these questions about the Amarillo area code.
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No. 806 has not been overlaid or split again since it was created in 1957.
Yes. Canyon, Pampa, Hereford, Dumas and Borger are in the commission’s list of 806 exchanges, next to Amarillo.
A local call in Amarillo is dialed with ten digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 234 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Amarillo code: 806 (234). A complaint is one person's report. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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