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Welcome to Lone Rock ...

Lone Rock is located in the Arkansas Ozarks.

Lone Rock is located in Baxter County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Lone Rock, you might consider that their post office opened in 1879.

Lone Rock is 760 feet [232 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Lone Rock lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Lone Rock: 870 & 327<3>

Communities Also Named Lone Rock ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Lone Rock - they are located in Idaho, Iowa, Saskatchewan and Wisconsin (2).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lone Rock.

Communities near Lone Rock ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Lone Rock.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Lone Rock. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Lone Rock.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Lone Rock. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lone Rock.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Lone Rock. See our Newspapers Page for Lone Rock.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Lone Rock ...

Looking for more information about Lone Rock? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Lone Rock, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Lone Rock.

Adding Lone Rock to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Lone Rock in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Lone Rock was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Lone Rock post office opened in 1879. The Lone Rock post office closed in 1957.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Lone Rock.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Arkansas' counties, including Baxter, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Lone Rock - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 870 code has been Overlayed with the 327 area code. New phone numbers in the Lone Rock area will be assigned with one of these codes: 870 or 327. As a result, placing a call in the Lone Rock area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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