Douglas Alabama Area Codes

4 area codes cover Douglas: 205, 256, 659 and 938. A number carrying any of them is local to Douglas.

The codes covering Douglas

Area codes covering Douglas, Alabama, with what each one primarily serves.
Area codePrimarily servesShares ground withIn service
205Birmingham6591947
256Huntsville9381998
659Birmingham2052019
938Huntsville2562010

A code in the “shares ground” column is an overlay: it covers the same territory rather than a different part of Douglas, which is why local calls there are dialled as ten digits.

Matched to Douglas through county-level data rather than a direct telephone record, so treat it as the region’s coverage rather than a per-address guarantee.

Scope the codes matched to Douglas. Source geoinfo-dataset (full_dataset) ZIP→NPA (2018 snapshot) and LocalCallingGuide NPA list (2026-07 NPA list). Updated . Overlay relationships come from the numbering-plan authority; the place match is computed.

Which part of town has which code

We do not publish which of these codes covers which street or neighbourhood in Douglas, and we would rather say so than guess. Area codes are drawn around telephone rate centres, which follow neither municipal boundaries nor ZIP codes, and the per-ZIP telephone data we hold is a 2018 snapshot too noisy to split a city with. Where these codes overlay one another the question has no answer at all: they cover the same ground by design. Awaiting a current, clean-rights rate-centre boundary source.

ZIP codes for the same city

Postal geography is organised separately from telephone geography, so Douglas’s 1 ZIP code do not map onto the codes above. They are listed in full, with the county each falls in, on the postal side of the site.

Douglas Alabama ZIP codes →

Nearby places with different codes

These are the closest places to Douglas whose area codes are not the same set. If you are near one of them, a local number may carry a code that is not on the list above.

The nearest places to Douglas covered by a different set of area codes.
CityDistanceTheir area codes
Walnut Grove Alabama area codes7.5 mi205, 659
Albertville Alabama area codes9.2 mi256, 938
Boaz Alabama area codes9.8 mi256, 938
Sardis Alabama area codes12 mi334, 483
Guntersville Alabama area codes14 mi256, 938
Arab Alabama area codes15 mi256, 938
Blountsville Alabama area codes16 mi205, 659
Holly Pond Alabama area codes17 mi256, 938

Straight-line distance between place reference points, not driving distance.