Waynesville Missouri Area Codes

2 area codes cover Waynesville: 235 and 573. A number carrying any of them is local to Waynesville.

The codes covering Waynesville

Area codes covering Waynesville, Missouri, with what each one primarily serves.
Area codePrimarily servesShares ground withIn service
235Columbia5732024
573Columbia2351996

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

Scope the codes matched to Waynesville. 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We do not publish which of these codes covers which street or neighbourhood in Waynesville, and we would rather say so than guess.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 Waynesville’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.

Waynesville Missouri ZIP codes →

Nearby places with different codes

These are the closest places to Waynesville 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 Waynesville covered by a different set of area codes.
CityDistanceTheir area codes
Richland Missouri area codes10 mi235, 417, 573
Stoutland Missouri area codes16 mi235, 417, 573
Plato Missouri area codes22 mi417
Lebanon Missouri area codes26 mi417
Rolla Missouri area codes27 mi235, 314, 557, 573
Phillipsburg Missouri area codes36 mi417
Houston Missouri area codes37 mi417
Raymondville Missouri area codes39 mi417

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