Lone Star

The Lone Star State is the official state nickname of Texas.

Lone Star (Lonestar or Lone Stars) may also refer to:

Places in the United States

• Lone Star, Fresno County, California, an unincorporated community
• Lone Star, Glenn County, California, an unincorporated community
• Lone Star, Humboldt County, California, a former settlement
• Lone Star Junction, California, a locality in Humboldt County
• Lone Star, Placer County, California, a former settlement
• Lone Star, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Lone Star, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Lone Star, South Carolina, an unincorporated community
• Lone Star, Texas, a city in Morris County, Texas
• Lone Star, Cherokee County, Texas, a ghost town in Cherokee County, Texas
• Lone Star, Kaufman County, Texas, an unincorporated community

Businesses

• Lone Star Language Academy, Public Charter school in Dallas, Texas
• Lone Star Funds, a worldwide private equity firm based in Dallas, Texas
• Lone Star Brewing Company, the first large, mechanized brewery in 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
• Lone Star Music, a New Braunfels, Texas-based music company
• KZPS ("Lone Star 92.5"), a radio station serving the Dallas/Fort Worth market in Texas
• MovieTime (originally named Lonestar), a Canadian digital cable specialty channel
• Lone Star Productions, a Poverty Row producer of John Wayne western films in the 1930s, released through Monogram Pictures
• Lone Star New Zealand, a dinner restaurant, bar and café chain in New Zealand

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 1920–1922
• Lone Star Airlines, an American regional airline that operated domestic and international flights from 1984–1998
• Lone Star (Amtrak train), an Amtrak passenger train serving Chicago, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, and Houston from 1971–1974
• 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 TV

• "Lone Star", a 1954 episode of Hallmark Hall of Fame
• Lone Star (1952 film), a 1952 Western film starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Broderick Crawford
• Lone Star (1996 film), an American mystery film written and directed by John Sayles
• Lone Star (TV series), a short-lived American television series
• Captain Lone Starr, a main protagonist in the 1987 Mel Brooks film Spaceballs

Music

• Lone Star (band), a Welsh rock band formed in Cardiff, Wales in 1975
  • Lone Star (album), the debut album of the Welsh band

• Lonestar, an American country music band
  • Lonestar (album), the debut album of the American band

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), the national team of Liberia and is controlled by the Liberia Football Association
• Lone Star Conference (LSC), a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II
• Lone Star Park, a horse racing track located in Grand Prairie, Texas
• Lone Star Series, the rivalry between the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball
• Lonestar Soccer Club, a youth (U8 through U18) soccer club, based in Austin, Texas

Other uses

• 49th Armored Division (United States) (nicknamed the Lone Star), one of two armored divisions of the United States Army National Guard
• The Lone Star, a barque featured in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Five Orange Pips"

See also

• Lone Star State, the official state nickname of Texas
• La Estrella Solitaria ("The Lone Star" in Spanish), the flag of Chile
• The Lone Star Flag, the flag of Texas
• Lone Star Planet, a novel by H. Beam Piper
• Lone Star Mill, former name of Moreland Mill, California, an unincorporated community