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History · Cabot

Cabot’s post office opened in 1873, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

More historic than 19% of U.S. towns · #92 of 123 in Arkansas. What drives it

Most of Cabot was built recently: 0.2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2000. Its Register listings are the Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery and the Dr. E.F. Utley House. Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1913 on, and the census since 1880.

1873first post office
2on the National Register
0.2%homes built before 1940
3old photos & papers
1famous people
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From Cabot’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Cabot began

When was Cabot founded?

1873

The Cabot post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 154 in 18802020 census: 26,569153 years

How historic is Cabot?

C−

More historic than 19% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Cabot post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Cabot’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Cabot is more historic than 19% of U.S. towns, #92 of 123 in Arkansas. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Cabot’s overall grade.
Founding era1873, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19400.2% of homes (±0.2) · typical AR town 3.1% · U.S. 8.4%DNational Register2 listings, 0.7 per 10,000 residents · typical AR town 20.5 · U.S. 2.4C+
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 19%
NewerOlder
Arkansas towns of 2,500+ (123)Ahead of 25%

Arkansas towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Arkansas town has 20.5 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Cabot’s 0.7 sits below most of its state (24% of Arkansas towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C. The pre-1940 share (±0.2 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Cabot’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages24 hamlets and corners are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenOnly 3 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Cabot’s post office has been open since 1873.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Candlewood EstatesCastle HeightsCountry Club AdditionCountry LaneCrestwoodEvans EstatesGlenwood EstatesKingwood AdditionMark Lynn TerraceMeadowlark AdditionPheasant Run AdditionPinewoods AdditionRidgecrestSouthbridge AdditionSouthside AdditionSpring ValleySummit AdditionSunland EstatesThe Heights AdditionThe Meadows AdditionThe OaksWaymack AdditionWelders WoodWindwood Circle
Gone or out of use
Odom FieldairportPleasant Valley Churchchurch
1cemetery inside Cabot
Mount Carmel

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Help out

Start Cabot’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cabot’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo3 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewCabot Arkansa USA... snow, bright sun, …: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Cabot came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Cabot.

Read it all →

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.

ChaptersPrior to settlementEarly historyBedroom communityRecent history

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Cabot, 1873 to 1961

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1873Post officeThe Cabot post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1941On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1961Born hereTerri Britt is born here
By decade

Cabot, decade by decade

Date unknown3 to date
Cabot Arkansa USA... snow, bright sun, and clear cloudsDate?Cabot Arkansa USA... snow, bright sun, and clear clou…Our "Moon"Date?Our "Moon"Sunny and clear clouds here in Cabot Arkansas... USADate?Sunny and clear clouds here in Cabot Arkansas... USA
Today11 recent
The Sun Looks Like An Angel2026The Sun Looks Like An AngelCabot Arkansa USA... snow, bright sun, and clear clouds, plants hanging in there2026Cabot Arkansa USA... snow, bright sun, and clear clou…AR-89 Looking South2020AR-89 Looking SouthBBQ in2017BBQ inCabot, AR 0032015Cabot, AR 003Cabot, AR 0022015Cabot, AR 002Cabot, AR 0012015Cabot, AR 001Sloppy yummy BBQ beef and smoked beans from The Mean Pig2007Sloppy yummy BBQ beef and smoked beans from The Mean …Cabot High School2006Cabot High SchoolCabot Arkansas2006Cabot ArkansasARMap-doton-Cabot2005ARMap-doton-Cabot
On the map

Cabot on the map, 1941 to 1994

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Cabot. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Cabot on the 1941 USGS mapCabot on the 1954 USGS mapCabot on the 1970 USGS mapCabot on the 1987 USGS mapCabot on the 1994 USGS map1941Cabot sheet · 1:31,680

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Cabot.

Every building

Cabot, building by building, 1913

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a sheet.

Cabot fire insurance map, 1913, sheet 11913Sheet 1 of 1
Sheets
BrickWoodStone

Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Cabot Arkansa USA... snow, bright sun, and clear clouds
Retake this viewCabot Arkansa USA... snow, bright sun, and clear clouds

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Cabot’s page.

Retake this view · +15
On the National Register

2 historic places in Cabot

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1996
Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery
Camp Nelson Confederate CemeteryDr. E.F. Utley House
BuildingsObjects
Camp Nelson Confederate CemeteryObject
Dr. E.F. Utley HouseBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Cabot, census by census

05,00010,00015,00020,00025,0001880190019201940196019802000202026,569

Grew from 154 people in 1880 to 26,569 in 2020, more than tenfold.

14 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Cabot’s Wikipedia page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

AustinIts storyD

Questions about Cabot’s history

What year was Cabot founded?

The Cabot post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Cabot rank for history?

Cabot is more historic than 19% of U.S. towns, #92 of 123 in Arkansas. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

What is on the National Register in Cabot?

Two places: the Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery (listed 1996) and the Dr. E.F. Utley House (1998).

How old are the homes in Cabot?

0.2% of Cabot’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 3.1% for an Arkansas town; the median home was built in 2000.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikimedia Commons (14), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.