Pick 260 if the number should read as Fort Wayne.
The commission’s 2001 release names Fort Wayne first among the 260 cities, and the rate center map adds Huntington, Auburn and Angola.
The area code for Fort Wayne is 260.
Area codes in Fort Wayne
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260 is the one code of Fort Wayne. It entered service on January 15, 2002, and it covers the northeast third of Indiana.
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Fort Wayne has one area code.
Pick 260 for Fort Wayne, the only code in northeast Indiana.
Pick 260 to reach Bluffton and Kendallville too.
Both are in the same code, as are Decatur and Wabash.
Pick 574 if the number is for South Bend or Elkhart.
574 serves north-central Indiana and came out of the same three-way split of 219 as 260.
People filed 56 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the Fort Wayne area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 56 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 260.
- 56unwanted-call complaints named a Fort Wayne code
Fort Wayne codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with the Fort Wayne code.
- 1260Northeast Indiana56
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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It was 219. The commission split the old 219 area three ways on June 14, 2001, and the northeast third took 260.
Using 260 became mandatory on June 14, 2002, after the code entered service on January 15, 2002.
A local call in Fort Wayne is dialed with seven digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 56 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Fort Wayne code: 260 (56). 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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