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Cabot, Arkansas

Cabot, Arkansas
City
Official seal of Cabot, Arkansas
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Lonoke County Arkansas Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Cabot Highlighted.svg
Cabot, Arkansas is located in the US
Cabot, Arkansas
Cabot, Arkansas
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 34°58′22″N 92°1′20″W / 34.97278°N 92.02222°W / 34.97278; -92.02222Coordinates: 34°58′22″N 92°1′20″W / 34.97278°N 92.02222°W / 34.97278; -92.02222
Country United States
State Arkansas
County Lonoke
Founded 1873
Incorporated 1891
Government
 • Mayor Bill Cypert
Area
 • City 19.2 sq mi (49.7 km2)
 • Land 19.1 sq mi (49.5 km2)
 • Water 0.1 sq mi (0.2 km2)
Elevation 299 ft (91 m)
Population (2015 estimate)
 • City 25,627 (est.)
 • Density 1,101.5/sq mi (425.0/km2)
 • Metro 685,488 (Little Rock)
Demonym(s) Cabota
Time zone CST (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP code 72023
Area code(s) 501
FIPS code 05-10300
GNIS feature ID 0057487
Website www.cabotar.gov

Cabot is the largest city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States and a suburb of Little Rock. According to 2010 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 23,776, ranking it as the state's 20th largest city, behind Paragould. It is part of the Little RockNorth Little RockConway Metropolitan Statistical Area. Cabot has the third highest median household income in Arkansas (after Maumelle and White Hall).

Before the city of Cabot existed, an 1862 typhoid epidemic took the lives of about 1500 Confederate soldiers previously under Allison Nelson who were camped in the hills surrounding Cabot and nearby Austin, Arkansas. Four hundred twenty-eight poorly marked graves were exhumed in 1905 by a group of Confederate veterans and moved to a new site at Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery located in Cabot on Rye Drive, just off Cherry Road between Campground and Mount Carmel Roads. 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 began as a small settlement at a refueling station on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad. The settlement first appeared in 1873 and is thought to have been named after a railroad surveyor. First Baptist Church was established in 1876 and 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.


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