Editing Cabot, Arkansas (section)

=== Recent history ===
[[Image:Cabot Arkansas.jpg|thumb|Southward view of the Cabot Mini-Mall along First Street in downtown Cabot in December 2006]]

A devastating [[tornado]] hit downtown Cabot during the afternoon of March 29, 1976, killing five people and destroying multiple buildings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Looking back: 40 years after devastating Cabot tornado |url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/cabottornado/ |access-date=July 22, 2023 |website=www.arkansasonline.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=March 30, 1976 |title=Tornadoes Strike In South |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/30/archives/tornadoes-strike-in-south-10-killed-and-250-are-hurt.html |access-date=July 22, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> During the rebuilding of the city, it was decided to build a new 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. [[Arkansas 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's population has more than quintupled from the 1980s to today, from under 5,000 residents to over 26,000. New housing starts, as seen by new subdivided developments, now cover the town.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

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. Although there were 100 people in the building at the time, there were no injuries.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sabin |first=Warwick |date=August 11, 2006 |title=Fire at Cabot junior high school |url=https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2006/08/10/fire-at-cabot-junior-high-school |access-date=July 22, 2023 |website=Arkansas Times |language=en-US}}</ref> The building burned from 2:30&nbsp;p.m. to about 9:00&nbsp;p.m., and the structure was a total loss. Cabot Fire and Police Departments say that this is one of the worst [[structure fire]]s to have ever occurred in Cabot. The school was only about eight years old. It was rebuilt and reopened about three years later.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 3, 2009 |title=CABOT JUNIOR HIGH NORTH REBUILT: Up from the ashes |url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/sep/03/cabot-junior-high-north-rebuilt-ashes-20090903/ |access-date=July 22, 2023 |website=Arkansas Online |language=en}}</ref>