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Lone Star, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66047. It stands on Chicken Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lone Star quadrangle. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Lone Star within Douglas County

On record in Lone Star

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

41 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Lone Star between 2015 and 2020, burning about 876 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas County297
7 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service707181
19 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
10 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKansas Forest Service710182
23 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
20 June 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service620151
8 April 2018Debris and open burning9.0 acresKansas Forest Service407181
5 April 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresKansas Forest Service405181

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Star in 34 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 14 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 3 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019Tornado (EF3)Lone Star4 hurtThis tornado appears to have formed just east of Lone Star Lake around 605 pm CDT where it absorbed a smaller circulation and associated tornado as it intensified and move northeast across Douglas county including areas just south and southeast of the city of Lawrence. The tornado became wide and intense as it moved south of Lawrence and crossed highway 10 before moving just north of Eudora and over the Kansas river into Leavenworth county. The damage path was one half to one mile at times with the most intense damage surveyed in the high end EF3 range which suggests winds of 150 to 160 mph. The tornado ended in Leavenworth county around 7 pm CDT with a path of around 28 miles total. The tornado did produce EF4 damage in Leavenworth county around Linwood Kansas.
August 2019Flash FloodLone Star$250,000Serious flash flooding of 12 to 20 homes in lone star impacted by flood waters. 11 water rescues took place during the overnight hours across douglas county. Waters receded by midday.
August 2019Flash FloodLone Star$100,000Report of several homes surrounded by water in the town of lone star. Pictures on social media suggest the water is several feet deep.
August 2019Flash FloodLone Star$100,000Three water rescues have occurred near Washington creek south of lone star. The first was in a home, the second in a vehicle and the third was a citizen trapped on a bridge. In addition, numerous roads in southwestern Douglas county are closed.
June 2007Flash FloodLone Star$100,000County road 1 closed one mile north of Globe. Water flowing over the road from the Lone Star spillway. Numerous reports of flash flooding over roadways east of Vinland to the Clinton Lake area including inundation of low water crossings. |
October 1998Thunderstorm WindLone Star$3,000Strong winds damaged several buildings south of Clinton Lake near Lone Star.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLone Star-Measured on a personal weather station.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLone Star-Measured on a personal weather station.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLone Star-A small chicken coop was blown over along with a small playground set.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLone Star-Estimated wind gust.
August 2015HailLone Star-Small tree limbs down as well.
June 2014Flash FloodLone Star-Report of 1075 Rd closed due to rushing water across road from nearby creek behind the Wakarusa Valley school.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLone Star-A trained spotter near Lone Star estimated 70 mph wind gusts.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindLone Star-A trained spotter near Lone Star reported a 60 mph wind gust.
September 2010Flash FloodLone Star-County Road 460 was closed near Vinland due to flash flooding. Water was reported running over Highway 59 near County Road 650.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Lone Star-A tornado touched down westnorthwest of Lone Star and traveled a short distance before dissipating.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Lone Star-A tornado touched down near Lone Star and moved nearly a quarter mile and damaged some trees before dissipating.
May 2018HailLone Star-no account filed
July 2015HailLone Star-no account filed
August 2015HailLone Star-no account filed
September 2015HailLone Star-no account filed
May 2011HailLone Star-no account filed
April 2011HailLone Star-no account filed
August 2003HailLone Star-no account filed
August 2003HailLone Star-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLone Star-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLone Star-no account filed
July 2003HailLone Star-no account filed
May 2001HailLone Star-no account filed
May 2001HailLone Star-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindLone Star-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLone Star-no account filed
May 2000HailLone Star-no account filed
May 1997HailLone Star-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Clinton3.6 miles20
Pleasant Grove4.6 miles18
Worden5.9 miles18
Globe6.3 miles17
Kanwaka7.4 miles21
Broken Arrow Park7.6 miles19
Sibleyville8.6 miles19
Stull9.0 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Lone StarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6671375The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 479512. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.