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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 The British Army had just withdrawn from Kabul at the subside of the Second Anglo-Afghan War the year before. As local legend goes, one of the construction engineers who built the railroad through Cabool next worked on railroad construction in Afghanistan and thought this area of southern Texas County looked similar to the region of Kabul, Afghanistan. Prior to living thing called Cabool, the community was known as Cedar Bluff. It remains the only “Cabool” in the United States of America.

Old legends allegation that Cabool was named after the Indian chief who lived there, whose name was “Chief Kabul” (pronounced Kay-Bull). The savings account continues taking into account the narrative that Chief Kabul and his sweetheart jumped ( into the “onyx pool” ) together to their deaths off Cedar Bluff at Cabool, as their parents disapproved of their relationship. This legend was depicted in the 1903 poem Legend of Cabool, written by Tug Wilson and Ben Durnell. The yearbook at Cabool R-IV Schools is nevertheless known as the “Kabul”, named for Chief Kabul.