Gilbert is a town in Searcy County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 26 at the 2020 census, ranking it as the smallest municipality in the give leave to enter and one of the smallest in the nation. Over the years, Gilbert has gained a reputation (along following Calico Rock) as one of the coldest locations in Arkansas.^{[citation needed]}

The Gilbert community was founded in 1902 taking into consideration a railroad construction camp for the Missouri and North Arkansas (M&NA) Railroad was built and named in honor of Charles W. Gilbert, secretary-treasurer of Allegheny Supply Company, which was building the railroad. The M&NA began at Seligman, MO and rambled for 303 tortuous, bloody miles to Helena, AR on the Mississippi River. In 1906, William Mays moved his growth and declare office to Gilbert. The Gilbert General Store, is listed upon the National Register of Historic Places below the herald Mays Store.

During the in front 1920s, Reverend John Battenfield and his buddies migrated into Gilbert and aspired to create a self-sufficient community to survive the reward of the Messiah. They built a church and erected a sturdy building of smooth beige stones that was the print shop for their weekly newspaper, the Kingdom Harbinger. Gilbert Cemetery, for those who didn’t make it for the anticipated Rapture, was founded in 1920 at the summit of the hill on Frost Street. Gilbert School District Eighty-eight was formed in 1921. Eli Jordan donated the land for a school, the residents donated child maintenance for lumber and materials, anyone when a team and wagon hauled in the lumber, and the men of Gilbert built the school. As the town grew, it boasted four stores, two hotels, an Eagle Pencil Company mill, several sawmills and three doctors. 1923 passed without the heavens of the Messiah, and in 1925 Reverend Battenfield and his associates left Gilbert to see for unconventional location.

In the 1930s Gilbert had 116 people, its highest ever population count.