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.
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
Chicken Creek Bridgelisted 1990
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Lone Star quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
41 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Douglas County | 297 |
| 7 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 707181 |
| 19 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 10 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 710182 |
| 23 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 20 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 620151 |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 407181 |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 405181 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF3) | Lone Star | 4 hurt | This 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 2019 | Flash Flood | Lone Star | $250,000 | Serious 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 2019 | Flash Flood | Lone Star | $100,000 | Report of several homes surrounded by water in the town of lone star. Pictures on social media suggest the water is several feet deep. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Lone Star | $100,000 | Three 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Lone Star | $100,000 | County 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lone Star | $3,000 | Strong winds damaged several buildings south of Clinton Lake near Lone Star. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lone Star | - | Measured on a personal weather station. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lone Star | - | Measured on a personal weather station. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lone Star | - | A small chicken coop was blown over along with a small playground set. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lone Star | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Lone Star | - | Small tree limbs down as well. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Lone Star | - | Report of 1075 Rd closed due to rushing water across road from nearby creek behind the Wakarusa Valley school. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lone Star | - | A trained spotter near Lone Star estimated 70 mph wind gusts. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lone Star | - | A trained spotter near Lone Star reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Lone Star | - | County Road 460 was closed near Vinland due to flash flooding. Water was reported running over Highway 59 near County Road 650. |
| August 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Lone Star | - | A tornado touched down westnorthwest of Lone Star and traveled a short distance before dissipating. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Lone Star | - | A tornado touched down near Lone Star and moved nearly a quarter mile and damaged some trees before dissipating. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Lone Star | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton | 3.6 miles | 20 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Worden | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Globe | 6.3 miles | 17 | |
| Kanwaka | 7.4 miles | 21 | |
| Broken Arrow Park | 7.6 miles | 19 | |
| Sibleyville | 8.6 miles | 19 | |
| Stull | 9.0 miles | 20 |
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 Star | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6671375 | The 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.







