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Gateway, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72732. It lies near Gann Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Garfield quadrangle. 436 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,535 feet above sea level.

Gateway within Benton County

Population over time

2 figures

Gateway grew from 405 to 436 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010405
2020436+31 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Gateway between 1995 and 2020, burning about 746 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresPea Ridge National Military ParkFUELBURN
19 August 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined31 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 April 2014Naturalunder an acrePea Ridge National Military ParkCLEMON'S FIRE
11 April 2010Arson/incendiarism110 acresMark Twain National ForestTATE ROAD
4 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePea Ridge National Military ParkCONOCO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gateway: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Battler Creek Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
H L Burtner Uranium MineUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gateway in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2013Flash FloodGateway$1,000,000Portions of Highways 62 and 37 were flooded with over four feet of water over them. Significant damage to roads and bridges resulted from the flooding.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindGateway$25,000Strong thunderstorm wind overturned five boat docks on Beaver Lake.
March 2006HailGateway$25,000no account filed
March 2006HailGateway$25,000no account filed
March 2021HailGateway$20,000Hail up to golf ball size damaged vehicles and homes.
March 2021HailGateway$10,000Half dollar size hail covered the ground. The hail damaged homes.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGateway$10,000Thunderstorm winds damaged one barn, a chicken house and downed power lines.
March 2025HailGateway-no account filed
July 2018HailGateway-no account filed
September 2014HailGateway-no account filed
November 1995HailGateway-no account filed
December 1995HailGateway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hurd (historical)0.6 miles15
Osborn (historical)0.8 miles15
Clantonville1.4 miles15
Garfield3.7 miles15
Hill Top4.7 miles15
Vista Shores4.8 miles15
Pippin (historical)4.9 miles18
Line Store (historical)4.9 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on GatewayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2583302The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57802. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.