Tree Information
Common Name: river birch
Scientific Name: Betula nigra
Native/Naturalized: Native to Virginia
Database ID: 1881
Status: alive
National Champion: no
Virginia Champion: no
Circumference: 177 in.
Height: 75 ft.
Crown: 68 ft.
Points: 269
Date Last Measured: 2022
Last Measured by: Byron Carmean, Gary Williamson, Eric Wiseman, and Moriah Moss
Date First Measured: 2012
Comments:
2022 update: The tree continues to be very healthy and sound. The owner planted the tree himself. He dug it up near City of Franklin, VA and the Blackwater River in the late 1970s and grew it from a sapling in his front yard. Trunk circumference was measured as a basal wrap at the trunk's narrowest girth (2.5' above ground) because of its four leaders splitting below 4.5'.
2012 update: The tree appears healthy and sound. Measurements by Byron Carmean and Gary Williamson: circumference 162", height 69', crown 72', points 249.
Location of Tree
Tree is located in: City of Chesapeake
Land Owner: Jeff Smith
GPS Coordinates: 36.66641, -76.19595
Directions: At address in front lawn area. Address is at southwest corner of Centerville Turnpike and Forest Mills Rd.
Owner Address: 1728 Centerville Tkpe S.
Chesapeake, VA, 23323
Contact Information
Contact Name: Byron Carmean
Contact Email: rockplantrn@gmail.com
Contact Address: 3616 Labrador Ln
Suffolk, VA 23434
Contact Phone: 757-934-0588
Nominators
Original Nominator(s): Byron Carmean, Gary Williamson
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