Get a local business phone number in Buffalo, WV

Buffalo area codes

Buffalo town is a Census place in Putnam County, West Virginia, with an estimated 1,200 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 5 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 304 has the most (4, 80%). 304 is part of an overlay with 681, so a new local number in Buffalo may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Buffalo is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 304 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Buffalo exchanges by carrier

4 carriers hold the 5 exchanges assigned to Buffalo's rate center. Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC - WV has the most, with 2. 3 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. Holding a code means NANPA assigned that block of numbers to the carrier for this rate center; individual numbers may since have been ported elsewhere.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Buffalo

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Buffalo's rate center (BUFFALO). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2014. 1 of the 5 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Buffalo's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Buffalo

What a caller sees as "local" is the area code plus prefix. In Buffalo, those come from the BUFFALO rate center, as recorded by NANPA.

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 304 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Buffalo

Buffalo is part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro area, home to 367,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 7,018 business establishments in the Huntington, WV-KY-OH metro area in 2023, employing 116,763 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (1,261), health care and social assistance (980), and other services (except public administration) (764).

A Buffalo number on Callata

For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.

Porting a number you already use in Buffalo 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.

AI agents are optional: an AI receptionist or scheduler can pick up when the team is busy or closed, take a message, send a text or email, or transfer the call. They draw on prepaid AI minutes ($0.25/minute), disclose that they are AI, and outbound AI calls require prior consent and are limited to 8am–9pm.

A 17-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Huntington, WV-KY-OH metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $510.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $424.15. Callata comes to $339.00 a month for 17 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.