Crown Hill Neighbors

TREE INVENTORY

In January 2006, Crown Hill Cemetery and Brenwick Development engaged Vine & Branch, one of the city’s most respected tree companies, to prepare a tree inventory of the north woods of the cemetery. Vine & Branch produced a 64-page document listing 2,745 trees by tag number, species diameter at breast height, and condition rating of 1 (excellent) to 5 (dead).

Jud Scott, consulting arborist and president of Vine & Branch, stated that the trees were generally very healthy. He guessed that there was formerly an old farmstead on the site and that the trees were mostly second growth. He stated that 40-to-50-year-old trees predominate perimeter of the property. On the west side are rows of trees planted, perhaps indicating an old nursery at one time.

In a line-by-line count to account for missing tags, there are 2,745 trees with a diameter of nine inches or greater. The team did not inventory any trees smaller than 9 inches.

The following 24 trees are all three feet in diameter at breast height or larger. Note the number of trees common to wet woods and the diversity of the species present on this property; there are 47 species of trees in the full document.  Botanists have estimated that the bur oaks of 40 to 50 inches in diameter are in the range of 200 years old.

Page	Tag No.	Species	Size
37	2792	Silver maplele	36 inches
37	2811	Sycamore	70
39	2921	Silver maplele	38
40	2972	Pin oak	38
41	3005	Pin oak	44
41	3012	Pin oak	40
42	3025	Silver maplele	60
43	3105	Sycamore	46
44	3132	Bur oak	36
44	3153	Cottonwoodod	80
45	3182	White ash	38
46	3216	Sycamore	36
46	3244	Bur oak	48
48	3339	Bur oak	58
48	3351	Bur oak	48
49	3358	White ash	48
51	3460	Pin oak	46
52	3534	White ash	42
54	3617	Hackberry	44
56	3728	Cottonwoodod	56
57	3752	Cottonwoodod	60
57	3772	Siberian elmm	56
59	3840	Cottonwoodod	44
62	4016	Cottonwoodod	44

Alliance of Crown Hill Neighbors; P. O. Box 88770; Indianapolis, Ind. 46208 crownhillneighbors@hotmail.com