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 The British Army had just withdrawn from Kabul at the decline of the Second Anglo-Afghan War the year before.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

Old legends claim that Cabool was named after the Indian chief who lived there, whose reveal was “Chief Kabul” (pronounced Kay-Bull). The report continues afterward 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 still known as the “Kabul”, named for Chief Kabul.

Cabool is in the Ozarks of southern Missouri. The city is located in southern Texas County at the intersection of US Routes 60 and 63 and Missouri Route 181. Mountain Grove is eight miles west, Houston is approximately fifteen miles northeast and Willow Springs is not quite fifteen miles to the southeast, in Howell County.