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Area code 479
Area code 479 is centred on Fort Smith, Arkansas. We hold 4,544 allocated blocks for it across 74 rate centres, split 53% mobile, 30% landline and 16% VoIP.
The towns inside area code 479
Area code 479 is not a city code. It covers 74 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 479 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.
Arkansas is split across 4 area codes — 870, 501, 479, 327. By allocated blocks 479 is the third largest of them, holding 30% of the Arkansas total.
Where 479 numbers are concentrated
NANPA truncates rate-centre names to ten characters and drops the spaces, which is why Bentonvl and Fayettevl 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 479 |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Smith | 662 | 15% |
| Bentonvl | 644 | 14% |
| Rogers | 583 | 13% |
| Fayettevl | 508 | 11% |
| Springdale | 260 | 6% |
| Russellvl | 164 | 4% |
| Mena | 112 | 2% |
| Alma | 111 | 2% |
| Siloam Spg | 100 | 2% |
| Van Buren | 99 | 2% |
| Clarksvl | 71 | 2% |
| Eureka Spg | 63 | 1% |
| Greenwood | 54 | 1% |
| Ozark | 48 | 1% |
| Waldron | 47 | 1% |
| Centerton | 43 | 1% |
| Garfield | 37 | 1% |
| Booneville | 35 | 1% |
| Danville | 35 | 1% |
| Elmsprings | 35 | 1% |
| Mulberry | 34 | 1% |
| Boles | 33 | 1% |
| Gravette | 33 | 1% |
| Charleston | 29 | 1% |
50 further rate centres in 479 hold fewer blocks than these.
Carriers holding the most 479 blocks
AT&T Wireless1,304 blocks
Onvoy539 blocks
Verizon Wireless423 blocks
Southwestern Bell384 blocks
T-Mobile USA, Inc.230 blocks
Brightspeed Of Northwest Arkansas, Llc230 blocks
The largest holder, AT&T Wireless, has 29% of the code.
These are original allocations. A number keeps its digits and its block when its subscriber moves network, so a ported 479 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 479 number, or run a whole list through the free cleaner — neither uploads anything.
Common questions
Where is area code 479?
Area code 479 is centred on Fort Smith, Arkansas and spans 74 rate centres, so it covers a region rather than a town.
Is a 479 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 479 the split runs 53% mobile, 30% landline and 16% VoIP, so mobile is the most likely single answer.
Which carriers hold 479 numbers?
The largest holders are AT&T Wireless, Onvoy, 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 479 numbers are there?
The code holds 4,544 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 479 covers on the order of 4,544,000 possible numbers — most of which have never been issued to anyone.