NANP area code
276
UTC−5, UTC−4 during daylight saving
- State
- Virginia
- Primary city
- Bristol
- Time zone
- Eastern
- In service
- 2001
Area Code 276 — Bristol, Virginia
The code reaches 134 communities and 22 counties and independent cities across Virginia.
Was this call legitimate?
The area code itself carries no risk signal. 276 is assigned to Bristol, Virginia, so a call from it is consistent with a real caller in that area — but the digits alone prove nothing, because they can be forged.
Caller ID is set by whoever places the call, not verified by the network. That is why neighbour spoofing works: an operation anywhere in the world can display a number that matches the area code — and often the first three digits after it — of the person being called, so the call looks local. Every community in the 276 territory is a plausible-looking origin for a forged 276 number, which is why one can be made to look like a neighbour to so many people.
If you did not recognise the call: let it go to voicemail — a legitimate caller with real business will leave one. Do not return the call using the number shown; look the organisation up independently and call the number you found. Never confirm personal details, card numbers, or one-time codes to someone who called you, however plausible the number looked.
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Local time and when to call back
Time there now
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Eastern · UTC−5, UTC−4 during daylight saving
Reasonable callback window
8:00 AM – 9:00 PM
local time in Eastern
Federal rules bar telemarketing calls to a residence outside 8:00 AM–9:00 PM in the called party's own time zone. It is a sensible bound for a personal callback too — and a caller who rang you well outside it was not observing it.
Overlay codes
276 is the only area code serving its territory — it has no overlay in the current numbering plan for Virginia. Where a region has no overlay, a number's area code still corresponds to a single geographic area.
Cities served
| City | ZIP codes | County or independent city |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol | 5 | Bristol city |
| Martinsville | 4 | Martinsville city |
| Abingdon | 3 | Washington County |
| Amonate | 1 | Tazewell County |
| Andover | 1 | Wise County |
| Appalachia | 1 | Wise County |
| Ararat | 1 | Patrick County |
| Atkins | 1 | Smyth County |
| Austinville | 1 | Wythe County |
| Axton | 1 | Henry County |
| Bandy | 1 | Tazewell County |
| Barren Springs | 1 | Wythe County |
| Bassett | 1 | Henry County |
| Bastian | 1 | Bland County |
| Bee | 1 | Dickenson County |
| Ben Hur | 1 | Lee County |
| Big Rock | 1 | Buchanan County |
| Big Stone Gap | 1 | Wise County |
| Birchleaf | 1 | Dickenson County |
| Bishop | 1 | Tazewell County |
114 further communities not listed. All Virginia area codes →
- Reference points and footprint
- Not an official NANPA boundary
- Not a USPS delivery area
Scope every community matched to 276. Source geoinfo-dataset (full_dataset) ZIP→NPA (2018 snapshot), GeoNames US postal codes (2026-07 postal dump) and Census 2024 county Gazetteer (2024 Gazetteer). Updated . Coordinates are place reference points, not boundaries.
Counties and independent cities
Prefixes inside 276
We do not publish the NXX prefixes inside 276. The assignment of prefixes to rate centres comes from LERG routing data, which is proprietary, and we will not estimate it from postal data — ZIP codes and telephone prefixes do not map onto each other. Awaiting a clean-rights NPA-NXX source.