This bur oak used to be the biggest of its kind in Texas. It has since lost the state title, but Fort Worth's heritage register says it remains the second largest bur oak in the state, which is a great deal of tree to find in the southwest of the city. That ranking is close to everything on record. The register gives no girth, no height and no age, and it says nothing about what the tree is a memorial to, despite the name it carries. Somebody chose that word for a reason. If you know whose memory it keeps, or have ever measured the trunk, tell us. What we can vouch for is shorter but useful. The pin is the city's own point for this tree, not a street address, and a naturalist logged a bur oak at that spot within the last four years, so it was standing recently. In autumn, look down. Bur oaks drop the largest acorns of any North American oak, sitting in deep cups with a mossy fringe, and a tree this size should leave plenty of them. One thing to check before you set out: the register does not say whether the ground around the tree is public, so look at the spot on the map first and do not go through any gate that is not open to you.
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Southwest Fort Worth, TX (setting not stated by the register)
You can recognise it as the massive bur oak the city lists as the second largest in Texas and a former state champion. It stands at the register's point in southwest Fort Worth.
Access not stated by the register: check whether the point is public ground before publishing.
The line is our estimate of how much there is to see, not a measurement. Typical for this species where this tree stands; exact weeks shift with the year.
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