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Lone Star, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Summerfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75766. The Survey maps it on the New Summerfield quadrangle. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

Lone Star within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

282 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Lone Star between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,221 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 12 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 burning178
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
9 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 110
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 486
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 856 AND CR 4716
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2274 N
30 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service204 @ 110
29 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service110 @ 204
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Star in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
March 2025HailLone Star-Hen egg size hail reported just west of Lake Striker.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindLone Star-Trees were downed and a roof to a home was damaged near FM 2274 and FM 235.
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Lone Star-It was determined that storm damage east of New Summerfield, Texas was consistent with that of an EF-1 tornado. The most extensive damage was located west of County Road 2274 between County Road 235 and County Road 4504. The damage consisted of several trees snapped and/or uprooted.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Rock Hill1.6 miles11
Pine Hill3.0 miles11
New Summerfield3.5 miles11
Emmaus4.3 miles15
Ponta4.3 miles11
Stryker Creek Junction4.4 miles11
Griffin6.2 miles15
Elm Grove6.6 miles11

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 Q24260736The 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 1378602. 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.