Cabool is a city in Texas County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,946 at the 2020 census. The city was named after Kabul, Afgh…Cabool is a city in Texas County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,946 at the 2020 census. The city was named after Kabul, Afghanistan, using an older English spelling of the name, in 1882. The British Army had just withdrawn from Kabul at the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan War the year before. As local legend goes, one of the construction engineers who built the railroad through Cabool also worked on railroad construction in Afghanistan and thought this area of southern Texas County looked similar to the region of Kabul, Afghanistan. Prior to being called Cabool, the community was known as Cedar Bluff. It remains the only "Cabool" in the United States of America.
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