Lone Oak is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Crawford County, Kansas
Crawford County is a county located in Southeast Kansas. Its county seat is Girard, and its most populous city is Pittsburg. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 38,972. The county was named in honor of Samuel Crawford, the ...
, United States.
History
A post office was opened in Lone Oak in 1884, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1886.
Lone Oak was known historically for its
coal mining
Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ...
operations.
In 1885, a
mining accident
A mining accident is an accident that occurs during the process of mining minerals or metals. Thousands of miners die from mining accidents each year, especially from underground mining (hard rock), underground coal mining, although accidents al ...
in the shaft of the Lone Oak Coal Company killed two miners and injured four more.
References
Further reading
External links
* Crawford County maps
CurrentHistoric
KDOT
Unincorporated communities in Crawford County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas
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