NANP area code
539
UTC−6, UTC−5 during daylight saving
- State
- Oklahoma
- Primary city
- Tulsa
- Time zone
- Central
- In service
- 2011
- Overlay
- 918
NANP area code
539
UTC−6, UTC−5 during daylight saving
The code reaches 205 communities and 29 counties across Oklahoma.
The area code itself carries no risk signal. 539 is assigned to Tulsa, Oklahoma, 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 539 territory is a plausible-looking origin for a forged 539 number, which is why one can be made to look like a neighbour to so many people. The same applies to its overlay code 918, which serves the same ground.
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.
Codes.zone publishes no complaint counts, risk scores, or caller identities. We hold no data on individual numbers and will not estimate what we cannot source.
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Central · UTC−6, UTC−5 during daylight saving
Reasonable callback window
8:00 AM – 9:00 PM
local time in Central
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.
539 does not have its territory to itself. 918 covers the same ground, serving Tulsa and the rest of the 539 territory. An overlay is what a regulator adds when a region runs out of assignable numbers: rather than splitting the area and forcing half the residents to change their number, a second code is laid over the top and new numbers are issued from it.
The practical consequence: two neighbours on the same street can hold numbers in different area codes, so the code tells you nothing about which part of town a caller is in — and local calls must be dialled as all ten digits, because seven is no longer unambiguous.
| City | ZIP codes | County |
|---|---|---|
| Tulsa | 52 | Creek County |
| Bartlesville | 4 | Washington County |
| Broken Arrow | 4 | Tulsa County |
| Claremore | 3 | Rogers County |
| Muskogee | 3 | Muskogee County |
| Braggs | 2 | Muskogee County |
| Grove | 2 | Delaware County |
| Mcalester | 2 | Pittsburg County |
| Miami | 2 | Ottawa County |
| Pryor | 2 | Mayes County |
| Sapulpa | 2 | Creek County |
| Tahlequah | 2 | Cherokee County |
| Wagoner | 2 | Wagoner County |
| Adair | 1 | Mayes County |
| Afton | 1 | Ottawa County |
| Agra | 1 | Lincoln County |
| Albion | 1 | Pushmataha County |
| Alderson | 1 | Pittsburg County |
| Arkoma | 1 | Le Flore County |
| Avant | 1 | Osage County |
185 further communities not listed. All Oklahoma area codes →
Scope every community matched to 539. 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.
We do not publish the NXX prefixes inside 539. 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.
539 is the newer code here, added in 2011 over 918 (1953). The older code had run out of exchanges to assign, and an overlay avoids the alternative — splitting the region and forcing half its residents to renumber. New lines have been issued from 539 since.