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Cabool is a city in Texas County in the Missouri Ozarks, previously known as Cedar Bluff before it was renamed in 1882.

Cabool was named after Kabul, Afghanistan, using an older English spelling — as local legend goes, a railroad construction engineer who had worked in Afghanistan thought the southern Texas County hills resembled the Kabul region.

Cabool remains the only place named 'Cabool' in the United States.

Cabool's post office opened in 1882, and the city was incorporated in 1884.

In the 2000 census, Cabool was the largest city in Texas County — the largest geographic county in Missouri.

Cabool had a population of 1,946 at the 2020 census, down from 2,146 in 2010, when the census counted 918 households in the city.

Cabool covers 3.90 square miles in the Ozark hills of south-central Missouri.

Cabool High School is a historic native-rock structure, its oldest buildings dating to 1932.

An older local legend, retold in the 1903 poem 'Legend of Cabool,' instead claims the town was named for a Native American chief called 'Kabul.'

Cabool's median age at the 2020 census was 42.7 years, with about 23% of residents aged 65 or older.