Pick 501 for Little Rock, Conway or Hot Springs.
501 is an original code of 1947. 870 and 479 were both split from it, in 1997 and 2002.
Arkansas has four area codes: 501, 870, 479 and 327.
Area codes in Arkansas
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501 is Little Rock and central Arkansas, 479 is Fort Smith and Fayetteville in the west, and 870 covers the north, east and south, from Jonesboro to Texarkana.
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Arkansas has four area codes.
In the order they opened.
- 501Since 1947Little Rock and central Arkansas
99 FCC complaints
Get a 501 number - 870Since 1997Jonesboro, Pine Bluff and northern, eastern and southern Arkansas
188 FCC complaints
Get an 870 number - 479Since 2002Fort Smith, Fayetteville and western Arkansas
50 FCC complaints
Get a 479 number - 327Since 2024No page yet
1 FCC complaint
327
The newest area code in Arkansas is 327.
327 entered service in 2024, laid over the 870 area in northern, eastern and southern Arkansas.
Pick 501 for Little Rock, 479 for Fayetteville or 870 for Jonesboro.
Pick 479 for Fort Smith, Fayetteville or Bentonville.
479 covers western Arkansas, with Springdale and Rogers too.
Pick 870 for Jonesboro, Pine Bluff or West Memphis.
870 covers the north, east and south of the state, and reaches Paragould and Texarkana.
People filed 338 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Arkansas area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 338 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Arkansas codes. 870 was named most, on 188 of them (56%).
- 338unwanted-call complaints named an Arkansas code
- 870was named on the most of them, 188
- 56%of the Arkansas complaints named 870
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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479, the code of western Arkansas. It also covers Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers and Fort Smith.
Yes. 501 stood alone from 1947 until 870 was split from it in 1997.
Arkansas has four area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 501, 870, 479 and 327. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2024.
The newest area code in Arkansas is 327, in service since 2024. 327 entered service in 2024, laid over the 870 area in northern, eastern and southern Arkansas.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 338 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with an Arkansas code. The codes named were 870 (188), 501 (99), 479 (50) and 327 (1). 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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The codes, the places and the years are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database (its report of October 23, 2026), and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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