Lone Star Explained
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, 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
Music
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 500, a NASCAR race in 1972, renamed the Alamo 500
Military
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
See also