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Lone Star, Missouri

unincorporated community in Missouri

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ27985180 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lone Star is an unincorporated community in northeast Gentry County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

The community is on Missouri Route Y. Siloam Springs is two miles to the north and Martinsville in adjacent Harrison County is approximately five miles to the east.

History

A post office called Lone Star was established in 1873, and remained in operation until 1906. The name may be borrowed from Texas' nickname "Lone Star State".

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lone Star, Missouri” is unincorporated community in Missouri. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lone, Star and Missouri, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1873, 1906—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lone, Star and Missouri is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q27985180. Authority coordinates are 40.341, -94.253. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1873 and 1906.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lone Star, Missouri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.