Cabot

History

Before the city of Cabot existed, an 1862 typhoid epidemic took the lives of about 1,500 Confederate soldiers previously under Allison Nelson who were camped at Camp Nelson in the hills surrounding Cabot and Austin. In 1905, 428 poorly marked graves were exhumed by a group of Confederate veterans and moved to a new site at Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery. Marble gravestones were placed over each grave and a large marble obelisk was erected to honor the dead. In 1982, a group of volunteers from Cabot began maintaining the cemetery, which had fallen into disrepair. The city of Cabot sprang up as a small settlement around a refueling station on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad after it bypassed Austin. The settlement first appeared in 1873 and is thought to have been named after railroad executive George Cabot Ward. The First Baptist Church was established in 1876, and the Cabot United Methodist Church in 1881. G. W. Grandberry began publication of the first newspaper in 1885, named "The Guard". Grandberry, along with James Milton Park served as the towns medical doctors. By 1889 businesses began growing alongside the railroad tracks. Businesses included six general stores, two drugstores, a hotel owned by James Charles Boyd, James Adam's livery stable, and the Neely brothers cotton gin. The Bank of Cabot (later merged into Centennial Bank) was founded in 1903. The city of Cabot was officially incorporated November 9, 1891, as the 139th city in Arkansas. Cabot was often overshadowed in northern Lonoke County by what at the time was the much larger city of Austin (originally named Oakland). However, Cabot experienced growth during the 1950s and 1960s, due to its proximity to the Little Rock Air Force Base in nearby Jacksonville which opened in 1955, as well as due to the…

Geography

Cabot is in northwestern Lonoke County and is bordered to the northeast by the city of Austin. Interstate 57/U.S. Routes 67 and 167 pass through the northwest side of the city on a four-lane freeway, leading northeast to Searcy and southwest to Little Rock, the state capital. Jacksonville is southwest of Cabot via I-57/Highways 67 and 167. According to the United States Census Bureau, Cabot has a total area of , of which are land and , or 0.44%, are water. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Cabot has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• CABOT HIGH SCHOOL
  High · CABOT · 2,198 students · 16.8:1 ratio
• CABOT MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH
  Middle · CABOT · 907 students · 17.1:1 ratio
• CABOT JUNIOR HIGH NORTH
  Middle · CABOT · 888 students · 16.1:1 ratio
• CABOT FRESHMAN ACADEMY
  Other · CABOT · 784 students · 15.1:1 ratio
• CABOT MIDDLE SCHOOL SOUTH
  Middle · CABOT · 717 students · 15.9:1 ratio
• CABOT JUNIOR HIGH SOUTH
  Middle · CABOT · 710 students · 15.1:1 ratio
• EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · CABOT · 544 students · 16.5:1 ratio
• SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · CABOT · 521 students · 16.8:1 ratio