Get a local business phone number in Gate City, VA

What area code is Gate City, VA?

Gate City town is a Census place in Scott County, Virginia, with an estimated 2,019 residents in 2024. All 6 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 276. Gate City is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 276 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Gate City phone exchanges

5 carriers hold the 6 exchanges assigned to Gate City's rate center. Mountainet Telephone Company - Va has the most, with 2. 6 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. The table counts codes by the operating company NANPA assigned them to, not by who serves each number today.

Gate City phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Gate City's rate center (GATE CITY). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 2 of the 6 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Gate City's exchanges were assigned

The table groups Gate City's exchanges by the decade NANPA recorded them as assigned.

How local numbers work in Gate City

Phone numbers are tied to a rate center, the local calling area used to decide whether a call is local or toll. Gate City's numbers are rated to the GATE CITY rate center in NANPA's records. A business number from one of the prefixes above shows up on customers' phones as a Gate City number.

If your business already has a Gate City number, porting it to Callata is free and keeps it on your cards, listings and vehicles.

Who does business near Gate City

Gate City is part of the Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA metro area, home to 314,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 6,020 business establishments in the Kingsport, TN-VA metro area in 2023, employing 101,022 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (1,114), health care and social assistance (778), and other services (except public administration) (686).

Setting up a Gate City business line

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

Porting a number you already use in Gate City is free, and business texting is available once the carrier registration (10DLC) is approved; the registration carries a one-time $49 fee. Which specific numbers are open in a given area code depends on carrier inventory at the time you sign up.

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The comparison below uses 17 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Kingsport, TN-VA metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $424.15 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $510.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. Callata comes to $339.00 a month for 17 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.