A majority of payphone locations listed on The Payphone Project no longer exist. This collection of payphone numbers and locations is kept online for historical purposes. You might be surprised by how often I field requests or get web traffic from people who, for one reason or another, need to confirm whether or not a payphone once existed or did not exist at a certain place. A notable example of this occurred when a producer of the "Serial" podcast contacted me to evaluate what came to be known as " The Mysterious Best Buy Payphone ". Another take on the subject can be found at Who Still Uses Payphones, And Why? Information on these pages was collected from various sources, including law enforcement, private investigators, and numerous individuals who sent in their collections of payphone numbers and locations. Phone numbers on these pages are believed to either be or to have been at one time assigned to public telephones (payphones) in the United States. This information is provided as is in the hope that it will be useful in determining exact or approximate locations, past or present, of payphones in the United States.

Think of it as a data museum, or a long-range snapshot of what places of business in your area used to have payphones. It's actually fun searching through these pages and seeing what places of business used to occupy street addresses that I know are today taken by something else.

If you have SKYPE Internet phone on your computer, you should be able to click on the payphone numbers to try and call them. Most payphones are disconnected or reject incoming calls, but have fun trying!