Do you know of Lone Star ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lone Star. 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 Star.
We found mention of Lone Star as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Sumner County, Kansas.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1875 and closed in 1876.
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 Star ...
We found 34 communities that share the name Lone Star.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Lone Star.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 33 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 33 communities, 33 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lone Star [Douglas County].
- Douglas County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Lone Star.
- Arizona
- Graham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Lone Star [Graham County].
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Lone Star [Washington County].
- Idaho
- Kentucky
- Hart County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lone Star [Hart County].
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Lone Star [Covington County].
- Missouri
- Buchanan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lone Star [Buchanan County].
- Gentry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lone Star [Gentry County].
- New Madrid County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lone Star [New Madrid County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Lone Star #1
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Lone Star.
- Oregon
- Linn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Lone Star [Linn County].
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Calhoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lone Star [Calhoun County].
- Orangeburg 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 South Carolina community of Lone Star [Orangeburg County].
- Tennessee
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lone Star [Sullivan County].
- Texas
- Bell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lone Star [Bell County].
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lone Star [Cherokee County].
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lone Star [Floyd County].
- Kaufman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lone Star [Kaufman County].
- Lamar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lone Star [Lamar County].
- Morris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lone Star [Morris County].
- Red River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lone Star [Red River County].
- Titus County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lone Star [Titus County].
- Wise 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 Texas community of Lone Star [Wise County].
- Virginia
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lone Star ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lone Star:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
More Orphans in Sumner 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 Sumner County.
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Star 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/ |