# Lone Star

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Not to be confused with [Lode Star](/source/Lode_Star_(disambiguation)).

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

## Communities in the United States

- [Lone Star, Arizona](/source/Lone_Star,_Arizona), a populated place
- [Lone Star, Fresno County, California](/source/Lone_Star,_Fresno_County,_California), an unincorporated community
- [Lone Star, Humboldt County, California](/source/Lone_Star,_Humboldt_County,_California), a former settlement
- [Lone Star, Kansas](/source/Lone_Star,_Kansas), an unincorporated community
- [Lone Star, Kentucky](/source/Lone_Star,_Kentucky), an unincorporated community
- [Lone Star, Missouri](/source/Lone_Star,_Missouri), an unincorporated community
- [Lone Star, South Carolina](/source/Lone_Star,_South_Carolina), an unincorporated community
- [Lone Star, Texas](/source/Lone_Star,_Texas), a city
- [Lone Star, Cherokee County, Texas](/source/Lone_Star,_Cherokee_County,_Texas), a ghost town
- [Lone Star, Wise County, Texas](/source/Lone_Star,_Wise_County,_Texas), a ghost town
- [Lone Star, Kaufman County, Texas](/source/Lone_Star,_Kaufman_County,_Texas), an unincorporated community
- [Lone Star, Virginia](/source/Lone_Star,_Virginia), an unincorporated community

## Businesses

### Media

- [KZPS](/source/KZPS) ("Lone Star 92.5"), a radio station serving the Dallas/Fort Worth market in Texas
- [Lone Star Music](/source/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](/source/Monogram_Pictures)
- [Lonestar Productions](/source/Lonestar_Productions), an Australian film production company headed by Aaron Fa'aoso
- [MovieTime](/source/MovieTime) (originally named Lonestar), a Canadian digital cable specialty channel
- [*The Lone Star* (newspaper)](/source/The_Lone_Star_(newspaper)), a defunct newspaper in El Paso, Texas 1881–1886

### Others

- [Lone Star Brewing Company](/source/Lone_Star_Brewing_Company), the first large, mechanized brewery in Texas
- [Lonestar Cell](/source/Lonestar_Cell), a telecommunication company in Liberia
- [Lone Star Comics](/source/Lone_Star_Comics), a former chain of comic book stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
- [Lone Star Funds](/source/Lone_Star_Funds), a worldwide private equity firm based in London, UK
- [Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon](/source/Lone_Star_Steakhouse_%26_Saloon), a casual dining restaurant chain
- [Lone Star Toys](/source/Lone_Star_Toys), the name used by British company Die Cast Machine Tools Ltd for its toy products

## Transportation

- [International LoneStar](/source/International_LoneStar), a heavy duty truck manufactured by International Truck
- [Lone Star (1920 automobile)](/source/Lone_Star_(1920_automobile)), an early American automobile manufactured by Lone Star Motor Truck and Tractor Corp. from 1920 to 1922
- [Lone Star Airlines](/source/Lone_Star_Airlines), an American regional airline that operated domestic and international flights from 1984 to 1998
- [*Lone Star* (Amtrak train)](/source/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)](/source/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)](/source/Lone_Star_(steamer)), wrecked near Galveston, Texas in 1865
- [*Lone Star* (towboat)](/source/Lone_Star_(towboat)), a National Historic Landmark dry docked in Le Claire, Iowa

## Film and television

- [*Lone Star* (1952 film)](/source/Lone_Star_(1952_film)), a Western starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Broderick Crawford
- [*Lone Star* (1996 film)](/source/Lone_Star_(1996_film)), an American mystery film written and directed by John Sayles
- [Captain Lone Starr](/source/Spaceballs#Heroes), a main protagonist in the 1987 Mel Brooks film *Spaceballs*
- [*Lone Star* (TV series)](/source/Lone_Star_(TV_series)), a short-lived American television series
- [9-1-1: Lone Star](/source/9-1-1:_Lone_Star), an American procedural drama TV series
- "Lone Star", a 1954 episode of *[Hallmark Hall of Fame](/source/Hallmark_Hall_of_Fame)*
- "Lone Star", a comedy in one act, by [James McLure](/source/James_McLure)

## Music

- Lone Star, a [Spanish rock band](/source/Rock_music_in_Spain) formed in 1958
- [Lone Star (band)](/source/Lone_Star_(band)), a Welsh rock band formed in 1975 - [*Lone Star* (album)](/source/Lone_Star_(album)), the debut album of the Welsh band
- *Lone Star*, a posthumous demos album by English rock band [Shagrat](/source/Shagrat_(band))
- [Lonestar](/source/Lonestar), an American country music band - [*Lonestar* (album)](/source/Lonestar_(album)), the debut album of the American band

## Sports

- [Austin Lone Stars](/source/Austin_Lone_Stars), a soccer club that competed in the SISL, USISL and United Soccer Leagues from 1987 to 2000
- [Liberia national football team](/source/Liberia_national_football_team) (nicknamed the Lone Stars), national team of Liberia, controlled by the Liberia Football Association
- [Lone Star Football League](/source/Lone_Star_Football_League), a regional professional indoor football league from 2012 to 2014
- [Lone Star League](/source/Lone_Star_League), the name of three American minor professional baseball leagues in Texas, all defunct
- [Lone Star Conference](/source/Lone_Star_Conference), a college athletic conference
- [Lone Star Park](/source/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](/source/Arena_Football_Association)
- [Lone Star Showdown](/source/Lone_Star_Showdown), the name of the collegiate, athletic rivalry between the [Texas Longhorns](/source/Texas_Longhorns) and the [Texas A&M Aggies](/source/Texas_A%26M_Aggies) across all varsity men’s and women’s sports
- Lone Star 500, a NASCAR race in 1972, renamed the [Alamo 500](/source/Alamo_500)

## Military

- [36th Infantry Division (United States)](/source/36th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)) or Lone Star Division, now part of the Texas National Guard
- [49th Armored Division (United States)](/source/49th_Armored_Division_(United_States)), nicknamed the Lone Star, a United States Army National Guard unit
- [Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant](/source/Lone_Star_Army_Ammunition_Plant), a former government-owned facility near Texarkana, Texas

## People

- [William Henry Dietz](/source/William_Henry_Dietz) (1884–1964), nicknamed "Lone Star", American football player and coach
- [John Pendleton](/source/John_Pendleton) (1802–1868), nicknamed "The Lone Star", American congressman, diplomat, lawyer and farmer

## Other uses

- [Lone Star College System](/source/Lone_Star_College_System) a public community college system serving the northern portions of the Greater Houston, Texas
- [Lone Star Geyser](/source/Lone_Star_Geyser), Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
- [Lone Star High School (Frisco, Texas)](/source/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](/source/The_Five_Orange_Pips)"
- Lone Star tick, a tick known scientifically as [Amblyomma americanum](/source/Amblyomma_americanum)

## See also

- [Lone star flag (disambiguation)](/source/Lone_star_flag_(disambiguation))
- [Lone Star Series](/source/Lone_Star_Series), the rivalry between the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball
- [Intergalactic star](/source/Intergalactic_star), a star not gravitationally bound to any galaxy
- [Texas](/source/Texas), the Lone Star State

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