Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Gamaliel, AR

Gamaliel is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern Baxter County, Arkansas, in the Ozarks of north-central Arkansas — it has no municipal government of its own.

Its name is pronounced guh-MAIL-ee-uh and is one of Baxter County's biblical place names, taken from Gamaliel, the rabbi and teacher of the law mentioned in the New Testament.

Gamaliel lies along Arkansas Highway 101 about 12 miles northeast of Mountain Home, the Baxter County seat, and only about 3 miles south of the Arkansas–Missouri state line.

The community sits on a ridge at about 869 feet of elevation, with Bennetts Bayou to the east and Norfork Lake, the big reservoir on the North Fork River, to the west.

The U.S. Census Bureau first delineated Gamaliel as a census-designated place for the 2020 census, which counted just 33 residents in the CDP itself.

Gamaliel keeps its own post office with ZIP code 72537, which serves a far larger swath of rural lake country — the wider 72537 ZIP code area counted 828 residents in the 2020 census, compared with only 33 inside the CDP boundary.

About three miles southeast of the community, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Gamaliel Campground on the Bennetts Bayou arm of Norfork Lake offers 64 campsites with electric hookups, a boat ramp, a swim beach, a marina, and a mile-long nature trail.

Norfork Lake, the water at Gamaliel's doorstep, covers some 22,000 acres with more than 550 miles of shoreline and 19 Corps of Engineers parks, and is known for bass, crappie, and other fishing.