Pick 817 if the number should read as Fort Worth.
817 was split from 214 in 1953. Fort Worth kept it in 1997, when the north went to 940 and the south around Waco went to 254.
The area codes for Fort Worth are 817 and 682.
Area codes in Fort Worth
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817 has been Fort Worth’s code since 1953, and 682 was laid over it in 2000. Both cover Fort Worth and Arlington, and Dallas, next door, uses other codes.
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Pick 817 for the code Fort Worth has had since 1953, or 682 for the same streets.
Pick 682 if you want the newer code.
682 entered service on October 7, 2000, laid over 817 so that nobody had to change a number. It covers the same ground, from Weatherford and Keller to Mansfield and Granbury.
Pick 214 if the number is for Dallas.
Dallas keeps its own codes, and 214 is the oldest of them. It dates from 1947, six years before 817 was split from it.
People filed 282 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Fort Worth area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 282 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 817 and 682. 817 was named most, on 194 of them (69%).
- 282unwanted-call complaints named a Fort Worth code
- 817was named on the most of them, 194
- 69%of the Fort Worth complaints named 817
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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Yes. 817 and 682 both serve Arlington as well as Fort Worth, so a number in either one fits both cities.
In 1997 the old 817 area was divided three ways. Fort Worth and Arlington kept 817, the north took 940, and the south around Waco took 254.
A local call in Fort Worth is dialed with ten digits, whichever of its codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 282 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Fort Worth code: 817 (194) and 682 (88). 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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