Do you know of Lone Tree ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lone Tree. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Lone Tree.

Our sources for Lone Tree (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Lone Tree other than they indicate that Lone Tree would be found somewhere in Bureau County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1849 and closed in 1903.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Lone Tree ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Lone Tree.

There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Lone Tree.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Henderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lone Tree [Henderson County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Lone Tree [Douglas County].
  - Weld County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Lone Tree [Weld County].
- Indiana
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lone Tree [Greene County].
- Iowa
  - Johnson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Lone Tree [Johnson County].
- Kansas
  - Cowley County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lone Tree [Cowley County].
  - McPherson County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lone Tree [McPherson County].
  - Meade County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lone Tree [Meade County].
  - Osborne County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lone Tree [Osborne County].
  - Pottawatomie County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lone Tree [Pottawatomie County].
- Missouri
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lone Tree [Cass County].
- Montana
  - Pondera County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Lone Tree [Pondera County].
- Oregon
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Lone Tree [Union County].
- South Dakota
  - Moody County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Lone Tree [Moody County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lone Tree ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lone Tree:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lone Tree - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)

Rand McNally Map of Illinois (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Lone Tree.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 17/44472 (Place Name: Lone Tree)

County: Bureau (FIPS State/County: 17/011)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Lone Tree) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Bureau County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Bureau County.

Depue Junction	Lovejoy

French Grove	Port Arlington

Grover	Seatonville Junction

Junction	Truxton

La Salle Junction	Walnut Junction
Ladd Junction	Windsor
Loceyville

Footnotes ...

<1>

If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Lone Tree could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

<2>

A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/