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Gilbert, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Tomahawk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72675. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marshall quadrangle. 26 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Gilbert within Searcy County

On record in Gilbert

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Gilbert fell from 28 to 26 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
201028
202026-2 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Gilbert between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,230 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 59 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/incendiarism59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Debris and open burning20
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Other causes1
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
16 September 2000Smokingunder an acreBuffalo National RiverDUFFER
20 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBuffalo National RiverSAPLING
31 July 1995Smokingunder an acreBuffalo National RiverNORTHSIDE
6 May 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBuffalo National RiverUNDERGROUND WF
28 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBuffalo National RiverDRIFTPILE1
28 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBuffalo National RiverDRIFTPILE2
26 May 2014Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresBuffalo National RiverSAND HOLE ROAD
25 May 1996Smokingunder an acreBuffalo National RiverAMPITHEATR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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 Gilbert: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. 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
Buffalo River Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mud HollowZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilbert in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
October 2014Thunderstorm WindGilbert$1,000Large limbs were blown down.
May 2015FloodGilbert-The Buffalo River at St. Joe rose above flood stage during the morning hours of the 11th, falling back below flood stage late that evening.
July 2009Heavy RainGilbert-Gilbert broke the record for the greatest rainfall ever recorded in the month of July.
March 2008Flash FloodGilbert-The Arkansas Highway 333 bridge near Gilbert was flooded.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindGilbert-no account filed
June 1999Flash FloodGilbert-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindGilbert-no account filed
March 1996HailGilbert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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
Silver Hill2.0 miles17
Duff2.6 miles16
Zack3.3 miles17
Baker Hollow3.7 miles17
Push3.7 miles16
Zeb (historical)4.4 miles19
Buroak4.5 miles19
Lebanon (historical)4.9 miles17

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 GilbertAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673312The 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 49404. 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.