Cabot, Arkansas Cabot, Arkansas Official seal of Cabot, Arkansas Lonoke County Arkansas Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Cabot Highlighted.svg Cabot, Arkansas is positioned in the US Cabot, Arkansas - Cabot, Arkansas Cabot is the biggest city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States and a suburb of Little Rock.
Enumeration Bureau estimates, the populace of the town/city is 23,776, ranking it as the state's 20th biggest city, behind Paragould. It is part of the Little Rock North Little Rock Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Cabot has the third highest median homehold income in Arkansas (after Maumelle and White Hall).
Before the town/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 encircling Cabot and close-by Austin, Arkansas.
The town/city of Cabot began as a small settlement at a refueling station on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad.
The town/city of Cabot was officially incorporated November 9, 1891 as the 139th town/city in Arkansas.
Cabot was often overshadowed in northern Lonoke County by the much larger town/city of Austin (originally titled Oakland), which was briefly considered for the state capital.
However, Cabot experienced expansion during the 1950s and 1960s, due to its adjacency to the Little Rock Air Force Base in close-by Jacksonville which opened in 1955.
Southward view of the Cabot Mini-Mall along First Street in downtown Cabot in December 2006 During the stone of the city, it was decided to build a new town/city hall, municipal courtroom, library (since relocated), and police station on the site of the debris-filled dividing point between the east and west sections of Main Street, creating City Plaza.
Highway 89, which follows the same path as West Main Street in Cabot, was redirected around City Plaza along one block of Second Street, to continue its path along Pine Street just south of the Cabot High School campus.
Cabot has experienced phenomenal populace growth from the 1980s to today.
On August 10, 2006, Cabot Junior High School North experienced a devastating fire which was believed to have started as a small electrical fire in the library caused by a faulty light bulb.
Cabot Fire and Police Departments say that this is one of the worst structure fires to have ever occurred in Cabot.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 19.2 square miles (50 km2), of which 19.1 square miles (49 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.47%) is water.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Cabot has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The most recent United States Enumeration Bureau estimates available (from July 2014) indicate the city's populace at 25,627.
Many inhabitants chose to relocated to lesser communities around Little Rock, including Cabot, Benton, Bryant, Conway, and Maumelle.
As a result, a 'commuter culture' advanced because many residents, that had kids in Cabot schools, made the commute to Little Rock to work.
As more citizens moved to Cabot to join the Cabot Commuter Culture, the tax base interval and as a result The Cabot School District steadily advanced into one of the top-performing districts in the state.
Critics of Cabot's growth, such as the Little Rock-based journal Arkansas Times, accused these inhabitants of "white flight": and of simply giving up on an integrated Little Rock school district.
This accusation was despite the fact that Cabot (and northern Lonoke County as a whole) has historically been dominantly white and close-by towns, such as Austin, Ward, Vilonia, and Searcy, have also traditionally lacked range.
Currently, the Cabot School District encompasses the north end of Lonoke County.
The bulk of the county's populace today can be found in approximately the same area, including the county's most crowded and fourth most crowded cities Cabot and Ward, in the order given in addition to Austin, which is among Arkansas' quickest burgeoning communities.
The town/city has golf courses adjoining Greystone Country Club in the city's north end, and near Rolling Hills Country Club in southeast Cabot.
Both of the nation clubs and the Veterans of Foreign Wars post are exceptions to Cabot's legal status as part of a dry county, which prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages elsewhere in the city.
One of the city's biggest affairs, staged in the downtown region each October, is Cabotfest a improve fair that has grown in popularity as the city's populace has swelled over the years since the tornado.
Food on the Travel Channel, came to Cabot's Mean Pig BBQ amid the Season 2 "Little Rock" episode which aired on November 25, 2009 to try the Shut-Up Juice Challenge, which involves a large smoked pulled pork sandwich topped with coleslaw and "Shut-Up Juice" - barbecue sauce different with a tablespoon of concentrated, undiluted habanero extract. Cabot Public Schools serves students in the communities of Cabot, Austin, and Ward, as well as most of northern Lonoke County.
The Cabot High School Band is presently directed by Joe Trusty and includes over 200 students.
The choral program at Cabot High has persistently received high marks in county-wide and state competitions.
Awards have been given at All-Region Invitations, Contest, State Choral Performance Assessment, and the Lonoke County and Arkansas State Fairs.
Cabot High School has instead of a remodeling process which includes a new fine arts center, designed with the input from the administrators of the band, choir, theater, forensics, and art programs.
"Annual Estimates of the Population for All Incorporated Places in Arkansas" (CSV).
"Cabot, Arkansas Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
"Churches in Cabot Arkansas - Church - Finder.com".
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