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Gilbert is an incorporated town in Maricopa County, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix lying south of Mesa and northeast of Chandler.

The settlement was founded in 1891 and named for William "Bobby" Gilbert, who provided land to the Arizona Eastern Railway in 1902 for a railroad line between Phoenix and Florence.

Gilbert incorporated as a town on July 6, 1920.

The town's first store, Ayer's Grocery, opened in 1910, and its first post office was established in 1912.

Gilbert was known as the "Hay Shipping Capital of the World" from 1911 until the late 1920s, when hay shipments boomed thanks to the rail line and irrigation water from the Roosevelt Dam and the Eastern and Consolidated canals.

Mormon settlers from the Mexican colonies arrived in 1912 and helped build the young farming town.

The 2020 United States census counted 267,918 people in Gilbert.

The 2020 census counted 88,896 households and 93,230 housing units in the town.

Gilbert is the most populous incorporated town in the United States, sometimes described as the largest town in America.

Between 2000 and 2010 Gilbert was the fastest-growing incorporated place in the country among places with more than 100,000 residents, growing by about 90 percent in that decade.