Cabot, Arkansas | ||
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Location in the United States | ||
Coordinates: 34°58′22″N 92°1′20″W / 34.97278°N 92.02222°WCoordinates: 34°58′22″N 92°1′20″W / 34.97278°N 92.02222°W | ||
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 Rock–North Little Rock–Conway 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.