Road crews have come for this corner more than once, and every time the post oak has been left standing. Fort Worth's heritage register says the tree has been spared by roadwork on numerous occasions, and the proof is where it stands: directly behind a stop sign at a busy intersection, the kind of spot where trees usually lose. The register also calls it ancient, likely one of the oldest trees in the whole city. It gives no figure, and we will not supply one. Without a core, a planting date or even a recorded girth, "one of the oldest" is as far as the evidence goes, and it is a strong enough claim from a city that also holds the Turner Oak. We have no recent sighting of it beyond the register itself. If you pass it, tell us it is still there and how big it is, and if you know its age, tell us that too. You see it from the street, which is the right way to see it: stay on the pavement and leave the gardens around it alone.
Behind a stop sign at an intersection, southeast Fort Worth, TXYou can recognise it as the post oak growing directly behind the stop sign at a busy intersection. Look from the pavement; it stands in southeast Fort Worth.
Visible from the public street: it stands directly behind a stop sign at an intersection. Stay on the pavement and do not cross private gardens.
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