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Area code 260
Area code 260 is centred on Fort Wayne, Indiana. We hold 3,549 allocated blocks for it across 76 rate centres, split 42% mobile, 38% landline and 20% VoIP.
The towns inside area code 260
Area code 260 is not a city code. It covers 76 separate rate centres — billing areas, each its own local calling zone. The largest of them are named in the table below.
That matters twice over. A call between two 260 numbers is not necessarily a local call, because they can sit in different rate centres. And a code this wide narrows a subscriber to a region rather than a town.
Indiana is split across 8 area codes — 812, 317, 765, 219, 260, 574 and others. By allocated blocks 260 is the 5th largest of them, holding 11% of the Indiana total.
Where 260 numbers are concentrated
NANPA truncates rate-centre names to ten characters and drops the spaces, which is why Columbiacy and Kendallvl are shortened. Names are reproduced as recorded rather than expanded — the abbreviation is the key the block data is filed under.
| Rate centre | Blocks | Share of 260 |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Wayne | 1,018 | 29% |
| Huntington | 132 | 4% |
| Auburn | 95 | 3% |
| Columbiacy | 90 | 3% |
| Lagrange | 90 | 3% |
| Angola | 88 | 2% |
| Kendallvl | 87 | 2% |
| Huntertown | 75 | 2% |
| Wabash | 75 | 2% |
| Bluffton | 74 | 2% |
| Portland | 69 | 2% |
| Albion | 67 | 2% |
| New Haven | 67 | 2% |
| Decatur | 66 | 2% |
| Garrett | 57 | 2% |
| Arcola | 51 | 1% |
| Waterloo | 44 | 1% |
| Leo | 41 | 1% |
| Ligonier | 41 | 1% |
| Butler | 38 | 1% |
| Pokagon | 38 | 1% |
| Berne | 37 | 1% |
| Poe Hoagld | 37 | 1% |
| Nomanchetr | 35 | 1% |
52 further rate centres in 260 hold fewer blocks than these.
Carriers holding the most 260 blocks
Onvoy636 blocks
AT&T Wireless397 blocks
Verizon Wireless344 blocks
Frontier North, Inc..240 blocks
Bandwidth233 blocks
Omnipoint Communications Midwest Operations, Llc182 blocks
The largest holder, Onvoy, has 18% of the code.
These are original allocations. A number keeps its digits and its block when its subscriber moves network, so a ported 260 number still reports the carrier it started with. Closing that gap needs a live query against the routing database. How line type is derived.
Check a single 260 number, or run a whole list through the free cleaner — neither uploads anything.
Common questions
Where is area code 260?
Area code 260 is centred on Fort Wayne, Indiana and spans 76 rate centres, so it covers a region rather than a town.
Is a 260 number a mobile or a landline?
It can be either, and the digits do not say which. North American mobile and landline numbers share the same ranges, so the answer comes from the carrier holding the block. In 260 the split runs 42% mobile, 38% landline and 20% VoIP, so mobile is the most likely single answer.
Which carriers hold 260 numbers?
The largest holders are Onvoy, AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless. That is the carrier the block was allocated to, which is not necessarily the network a given number sits on today.
How many 260 numbers are there?
The code holds 3,549 allocated blocks in our copy of the numbering plan. A block is 1,000 or 10,000 consecutive numbers depending on how deeply it has been pooled, so 260 covers on the order of 3,549,000 possible numbers — most of which have never been issued to anyone.