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Kibler is a city in southern Crawford County, about four miles south of Alma and six miles east of Van Buren, sitting roughly halfway between Interstate 40 and the Arkansas River.

The community's roots go back to a nineteenth-century settlement originally known as Prairie Grove, and it later became known as Kibler Crossroads after Tom Kibler opened a store at the crossroads around 1900.

The Kibler family name appears in local land records as early as December 1882, when Mary Kibler was recorded as a landowner in the area.

Kibler was incorporated on December 6, 1963, with Thell Nelson serving as the city's first mayor.

The 2020 census counted 1,005 people and 386 households in Kibler, the first time the city passed one thousand residents, up from 961 people in 2010.

Early in the twentieth century Kibler benefited from the discovery of natural gas deposits in Crawford County, with the first wells drilled on local farms in 1914 and 1915.

The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission reported seven active natural gas wells in the Kibler area in 2013, a remnant of the field that once reshaped the community.

Kibler's first congregations included a Methodist church meeting in a home around 1886 and a Landmark Missionary Baptist church established around 1899, and a one-room schoolhouse stood in the settlement before 1900.

Kibler's local schools were consolidated with the Cross Lanes, Newtown, and Yoestown districts and eventually became part of the Van Buren School District.

Arkansas Highway 162 runs through Kibler and is called Kibler Highway within Crawford County.