Lone Grove is built on the site of a former village located in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation[5] in the Indian Territory, near a stand of cedar trees.

[7][8] Prior to that the community was named "Price's Store", after local general mercantile owner Dayton " Big Spicy" James.

[6] During the early 1900s local businesses included three grocery stores, a barbershop, a drugstore, a movie theater, a blacksmith shop, and three doctors.

Numerous oil pools, including the Healdton and Hewitt fields, were discovered nearby during the 1910s and 1920s,[7] and the Oklahoma, New Mexico and Pacific Railway reached town in 1913.

)[7] During the 1920s, the community grew with the addition of a two-story Masonic Lodge building, a wagonyard, a restaurant, a grist mill, a cleaning and press shop, and an automobile garage and gasoline filling station.

[9] The National Weather Service rated the tornado EF4 with peak winds in excess of 165 miles per hour (266 km/h).

[10] According to the Lone Grove city manager 114 mobile homes were destroyed, and 46 people were injured.