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About Winston-Salem Phone Directory

Phone numbers for Winston-Salem live across a dozen different places - CityLink 311, the city staff directory, the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools directory, Forsyth County department pages, the public library branch list, utility providers, hospitals, court contacts, and the area-code lookups maintained by NANPA and the FCC. Tracking down the right number usually means bouncing between websites. We built this site so you can land on the right directory, area-code reference, or hotline without hunting through five other sites first.

Why We Built This Site

Winston-Salem publishes phone information across many separate offices. The city staff directory covers municipal employees, while CityLink handles non-emergency city-service routing at 311 or 336-727-8000. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools has its own searchable directory. Wake Forest, WSSU, UNCSA, Forsyth Tech, and the public library system each maintain separate public listings. Public-safety lines split between 911, 988, 311, 211, WSPD non-emergency, sheriff administration, and records lines. Add Forsyth County departments, North Carolina state agencies, FCC references, and NANPA area-code data, and the picture gets crowded fast. We pull together the lookup tools, contact methods, and reference data for each of these in one place.

What You Will Find Here

  • Pages by phone topic: phone area codes, phone numbers, and phone codes
  • Local directory contacts: city staff, county government, K-12 school district, university, public library, major utilities, public safety
  • Directory walkthroughs: how to use the Winston-Salem city staff directory, CityLink 311, the school district directory, Forsyth County pages, and reverse-lookup channels
  • Phone numbering reference: the 336 and 743 area codes serving Winston-Salem, local exchange (NXX) prefixes, N11 service codes (211 / 311 / 911 / 988), vertical service codes, and toll-free prefixes

What We Cannot Do

This is a privately run reference site. We have no connection to any Winston-Salem city office, North Carolina state agency, school district, utility, telecommunications carrier, or directory operator. There are real limits to what we can help with:

  • We cannot place calls on your behalf or connect you to a department
  • We cannot change anyone's directory listing, add a number, or remove a listing
  • We cannot verify the identity of someone who called you
  • We cannot give legal advice or explain how a specific scam call applies to your situation
  • We cannot guarantee that every phone number, area code, or directory link on this site is current right now

Only the originating office can confirm a current phone number or change a listing. For emergencies, dial 911. For a mental-health or suicidal crisis, dial 988.