In the first decade of the 14th century, there was an armed struggle for power between rival noble factions, the so-called "Domination of Gerse" (Hungarian: gersei hatalmaskodás).

During this struggle a member of the Pethő family was killed, and the village church was burnt down.

In the course of putting down the uprising, the town was occupied by the comitatus, and only by the order of János Hunyadi was it returned to its earlier landlords, the Pethő family of Gerse.

During the decades surrounding the turn of the century, the towns lost much of their population due to emigration, World War I, and the ensuing Spanish flu pandemic and typhus.

The Minister of the Interior suggested joining Gerse and Karátföld in 1937, but the citizens rejected the proposal and the idea was dropped.

The official joining of Gerse and Karátföld took place October 1, 1950; at this time the united town received the name Gersekarát.

In 2001, a 33-hectare fishing lake was created on the town's southern border by damming the Sárvíz Brook.

Accommodation can be found either in campsites next to the lake or in rental houses and rooms in the village itself.