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Welcome to Lone Camp ...

Lone Camp is located in the Texas Panhandle.

Lone Camp is located in Palo Pinto County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Lone Camp, you might consider that their post office opened in 1907.

Lone Camp is 930 feet [283 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Communities near Lone Camp ...

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

  • Mineral Wells
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Strawn
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Graford
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Lipan
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Gordon
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Millsap
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Mingus
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Cool
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Cool is located in Parker County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cool
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 191 people
  • Palo Pinto
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Santo
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)

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 Camp. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Lone Camp.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Lone Camp. 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 Camp.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Lone Camp ...

Looking for more information about Lone Camp? 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 Camp, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Lone Camp.

Adding Lone Camp to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Lone Camp 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 Camp was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Lone Camp post office opened in 1907. The Lone Camp post office closed in 1920.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Palo Pinto, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Lone Camp - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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/