Lone Oak, Colorado County, Texas

Lone Oak is an unincorporated community in Colorado County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 50 in 2000.

History
The name of the village comes from a big, lone oak tree in the center of where the two main highways through it converge. The village, called Pisek, provided support for two companies in the 1880s. In 1887, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad came through the village one mile to the north, and the two firms relocated to the train, which had a built-in turntable. From 1869 to 1907, Pisek, also called Sandy Point, was home to a post office. The population was estimated to be 20 in 1939. The term Lone Oak originated when one store was relocated back to the crossroads with the oak tree in 1941. The town on the train line was subsequently renamed Nickols by the railroad. Lone Oak had eighteen houses and two stores in the middle of the 1980s. Instead of large-scale farming, the majority of the population focused on raising livestock and small gardens. The population was 50 in 2000.

Geography
Lone Oak is located on Farm to Market Road 1291, 6 mi east of Fayetteville, 8 mi southeast of New Ulm, and 3 mi from the Fayette and Austin County lines in northern Colorado County.

Education
Today, Lone Oak is served by the Columbus Independent School District.