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Gillham, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mineral Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71841. The Survey maps it on the Gillham quadrangle. 157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Gillham within Sevier County

On record in Gillham

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Gillham fell from 160 to 157 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
2010160
2020157-3 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

119 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Gillham between 1997 and 2020, burning about 991 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 50 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/incendiarism50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning15
Natural14
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2

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
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarism22 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Natural6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Natural15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Gillham: 14 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite, Antimony, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold. 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
OttoAntimony, Lead, Zinc, Silver, GoldProducer1877
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Antimony Bluff MineDiatomitePast Producer
Black Horse MineDiatomitePast Producer
Brewer MineDiatomitePast Producer
Clark MineDiatomitePast Producer
Hankins MineDiatomitePast Producer
Harrel ProspectDiatomiteProspect
Lignitz MineDiatomitePast Producer
Luttrell LeaseDiatomiteProspect

Every working recorded in Sevier County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gillham in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 15 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 1993Thunderstorm WindGillham$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked some trees down.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindGillham-A tree was blown down along Highway 71 just south of Gillham.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindGillham-An NWS survey team confirmed that a microburst produced a narrow swath of wind damage in the town of Gillham just south of the Kansas City Southern Railway to just east of Highway 71. The damage consisted almost entirely of uprooted hardwood and softwood trees, although a few softwood trees were also snapped. The damage was particularly concentrated just north of and down a hill from Gillham Baptist Church. The damage pattern was almost entirely unidirectional, pointing to the northeast, and even diverged slightly in a couple of places, which strongly indicated straight-line wind damage with estimated winds near 90 mph.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindGillham-Power lines were downed in Gillham.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGillham-Trees down along Highway 71 in Gillham.
March 2016HailGillham-Quarter size hail fell in the city of Gillham.
March 2016HailGillham-Quarter size hail reported on Lake Road northeast of Gillham.
December 2015Flash FloodGillham-Mineral Road near Gillham was flooded and closed.
April 2011HailGillham-Hail fell in Gillham, Arkansas.
April 2010HailGillham-Hail was measured just west of Gilliam along Hwy. 71.
July 2010HailGillham-Nickel and quarter sized hail was reported near Gillham, Arkansas.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindGillham-Trees were blown down across Hwy 71 just south of Gillham.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGillham-Numerous trees down.
April 2014HailGillham-no account filed
February 2012HailGillham-no account filed
January 2010HailGillham-no account filed
May 2002HailGillham-no account filed
May 2001HailGillham-no account filed
May 2001HailGillham-no account filed
November 2001HailGillham-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindGillham-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodGillham-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindGillham-no account filed
June 1994HailGillham-no account filed
June 1994HailGillham-no account filed
October 1993HailGillham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sevier 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
Mineral1.7 miles15
King1.9 miles15
Antioch (historical)2.3 miles15
Fairview3.4 miles15
Pullman3.8 miles14
Cross Trails (historical)5.9 miles14
Red Hill (historical)6.1 miles14
Avon6.5 miles14

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 GillhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2082067The 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 77018. 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.