Tree Information
Common Name: chestnut oak
Scientific Name: Quercus montana (syn. Quercus prinus)
Native/Naturalized: Native to Virginia
Database ID: 2281
Status: dead
National Champion: no
Virginia Champion: no
Circumference: 254 in.
Height: 71 ft.
Crown: 87 ft.
Points: 347
Date Last Measured: 2013
Last Measured by: Byron Carmean, Mike Rasnake, Gary Williamson
Date First Measured: 2013
Comments:
2023 comments: Alex Adams visited the location in September 2023. Only remnants found of the tree were the stump and a pile of wood and branches. A neighbor said the tree came down in a storm. The stump had extensive decay and it appeared that the trunk fractured and the whole tree fell over. In Google Earth, the tree was still standing and healthy in April 2021. So the tree had come down in the past couple years.
2017 comments: Height and crown spread updated based on 2017 Lidar from the US Geological Survey.
2013 comments: Tree appears healthy and sound. Height measured at 74' and crown at 91'.
Location of Tree
Tree is located in: Pittsylvania
Land Owner: Ollie N. Clark
GPS Coordinates: 36.62145, -79.62331
Directions: Off of US Route 58 (Martinsville Hwy) west of Danville. Behind residence on north side of Long Circle, across the street from The Lone Church of God. Property owner lives on the street that dead ends just north of the tree. Tree is quite conspicuous from Route 58 looking south down Shepherd Deering Lane.
Owner Address: 236 Shepherd Deering Lane
Cascade, VA 24069
Owner Phone: Private
Contact Information
Contact Name: Byron Carmean
Contact Email: rockplantrn@gmail.com
Contact Address: 3616 Labrador Lane
Suffolk, VA 23434
Contact Phone: 757-934-0588
Nominators
Original Nominator(s): Byron Carmean, Mike Rasnake, Gary Williamson
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