Lone Star

Not to be confused with Lode Star.

Lone Star, Lone Starr, Lone Stars or Lonestar may refer to:

Communities in the United States

• Lone Star, Arizona, a populated place
• Lone Star, Fresno County, California, an unincorporated community
• Lone Star, Humboldt County, California, a former settlement
• Lone Star, Kansas, an unincorporated community
• Lone Star, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Lone Star, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Lone Star, South Carolina, an unincorporated community
• Lone Star, Texas, a city
• Lone Star, Cherokee County, Texas, a ghost town
• Lone Star, Wise County, Texas, a ghost town
• Lone Star, Kaufman County, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Lone Star, Virginia, an unincorporated community

Businesses

Media

• KZPS ("Lone Star 92.5"), a radio station serving the Dallas/Fort Worth market in Texas
• Lone Star Music, a New Braunfels, Texas-based music company
• Lone Star Productions, a Poverty Row producer of John Wayne western films in the 1930s, released through Monogram Pictures
• Lonestar Productions, an Australian film production company headed by Aaron Fa'aoso
• MovieTime (originally named Lonestar), a Canadian digital cable specialty channel

Others

• Lone Star Brewing Company, the first large, mechanized brewery in Texas
• Lonestar Cell, a telecommunication company in Liberia
• Lone Star Comics, a former chain of comic book stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
• Lone Star Funds, a worldwide private equity firm based in Dallas, Texas
• Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon, a casual dining restaurant chain
• Lone Star Toys, the name used by British company Die Cast Machine Tools Ltd for its toy products

Transportation

• International LoneStar, a heavy duty truck manufactured by International Truck
• Lone Star (1920 automobile), an early American automobile manufactured by Lone Star Motor Truck and Tractor Corp. from 1920 to 1922
• Lone Star Airlines, an American regional airline that operated domestic and international flights from 1984 to 1998
• Lone Star (Amtrak train), an Amtrak passenger train serving Chicago, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, and Houston from 1971 to 1974
• Lone Star (SSW train), a passenger train operated by St. Louis Southwestern Railway between Memphis and Dallas that discontinued service in 1952
• Lone Star (steamer), wrecked near Galveston, Texas in 1865
• Lone Star (towboat), a National Historic Landmark dry docked in Le Claire, Iowa

Film and television

• Lone Star (1952 film), a Western starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Broderick Crawford
• Lone Star (1996 film), an American mystery film written and directed by John Sayles
• Captain Lone Starr, a main protagonist in the 1987 Mel Brooks film Spaceballs
• Lone Star (TV series), a short-lived American television series
• 9-1-1: Lone Star, an American procedural drama TV series
• "Lone Star", a 1954 episode of Hallmark Hall of Fame

Music

• Lone Star, a Spanish rock band formed in 1958
• Lone Star (band), a Welsh rock band formed in 1975
  • Lone Star (album), the debut album of the Welsh band
• Lone Star a posthumous demos album by English rock band Shagrat
• Lonestar, an American country music band
  • Lonestar (album), the debut album of the American band

Sports

• Austin Lone Stars, a soccer club that competed in the SISL, USISL and United Soccer Leagues from 1987 to 2000
• Liberia national football team (nicknamed the Lone Stars), national team of Liberia, controlled by the Liberia Football Association
• Lone Star Football League, a regional professional indoor football league from 2012 to 2014
• Lone Star League, the name of three American minor professional baseball leagues in Texas, all defunct
• Lone Star Conference, a college athletic conference
• Lone Star Park, a horse racing track in Grand Prairie, Texas
• Lone Star Series, an indoor football league that operated during 2021, later named the Arena Football Association
• Lone Star Showdown, the name of the collegiate, athletic rivalry between the Texas Longhorns and the Texas A&M Aggies across all varsity men’s and women’s sports
• Lone Star 500, a NASCAR race in 1972, renamed the Alamo 500

Military

• 36th Infantry Division (United States) or Lone Star Division, now part of the Texas National Guard
• 49th Armored Division (United States), nicknamed the Lone Star, a United States Army National Guard unit
• Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, a former government-owned facility near Texarkana, Texas

People

• William Henry Dietz (1884–1964), nicknamed "Lone Star", American football player and coach
• John Pendleton (1802–1868), nicknamed "The Lone Star", American congressman, diplomat, lawyer and farmer

Other uses

• Lone Star College System a public community college system serving the northern portions of the Greater Houston, Texas
• Lone Star Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
• Lone Star High School (Frisco, Texas), a public high school
• The Lone Star, a barque featured in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Five Orange Pips"
• Lone Star tick, a tick known scientifically as Amblyomma americanum

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Lone Star
• All pages with titles containing Lone Star
• Lone star flag (disambiguation)
• Lone Star Series, the rivalry between the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball
• Intergalactic star, a star not gravitationally bound to any galaxy
• Texas, the Lone Star State