Many elm (Ulmus) trees of various kinds have attained great size or otherwise become particularly noteworthy; among these are the following.
American elm Ulmus americana Most of North America's notable elms are Ulmus americana, a fast-growing and long-lived species capable of attaining great size in a few centuries, especially when open-grown. American Forests, a non-profit conservation organization, uses the following formula to calculate a point score for each tree to permit comparisons with others:Trunk Circumference (in inches) + Height (in feet) + 1/4 Average Crown Spread (in feet) = Total Points
State champion American elm trees The list of United States state champion American elm trees below tabulates each of the above characteristics, as well as the total points awarded to each tree. State Location Circumference Height Average crown spread Total points Year AlabamaWalker County3072018ArkansasOn the east side of Arkansas Highway 77 just east of the intersection of Highway 77 and Arkansas Highway 136, two miles north of Athelstan (intersection of Arkansas Highway 140 and Highway 77), Mississippi County390CaliforniaSan Jose, Santa Clara County2792015ColoradoDenver342.42ColoradoOlney Springs, Crowley County325.68ColoradoFort Collins, Larimer County314.43ColoradoFort Morgan, Morgan County310.62ConnecticutGreenwich, Fairfield County3602019DelawareThe Green, Dover, Kent County 367DelawareWhite Clay Creek State Park, Newark, New Castle County346Delaware1191 Boyds Corner Road, Middletown, New Castle County 305FloridaDuval County2822016GeorgiaNorcross, Gwinnett County3442016GeorgiaAtlanta, Fulton County3132011IdahoEmmett, Gem County3001998IllinoisEdwardsville, Madison County3292007IndianaParke County385.35IowaEast of Liberal Arts Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Johnson County311.25KentuckyJackson, Breathitt County363.882011Louisiana(National champion)Iberville Parish4552010(1) (2) MaineYarmouth, Cumberland County (removed in 2010 due to Dutch elm disease)3862006MassachusettsMain Street, Old Deerfield, Franklin County (removed in 2017 due to Dutch elm disease)360.72016MassachusettsMain Street — Bridge Lane, Hatfield, Hampshire County3142016Michigan6022 East O Avenue, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County4052019MinnesotaHennepin County near Minneapolis329.752010MissouriJohnson County353MontanaRavalli County3002012MontanaRavalli County2972012MontanaLewis and Clark County2912019NebraskaNear Idylwild Park in Lincoln, Lancaster County313.252019NevadaIdlewild Park, Reno, Washoe County233New HampshireDover, Strafford County2882018New JerseyStevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, Hudson County324New JerseyUnion County315New MexicoPhilmont Scout Ranch, near Cimarron, Colfax County3422010New YorkFulton County3532015North CarolinaPowellsville, Bertie County385North Dakota1012 Ninth Street South, Fargo, Cass County3082016North DakotaRose Street, Lisbon, Ransom County2942016OhioHamilton County3832016OklahomaPawhuska, Osage County2902013Oregon353Pennsylvania1 Jackson Street, Wellsboro, Tioga County3692017Rhode IslandProvidence312South CarolinaRichland County405South CarolinaRichland County372.25South CarolinaOconee County270South DakotaLyman County, near Chamberlain, Brule County 277TennesseeMeeman-Shelby Forest State Park, Shelby County4202001TexasGrayson County3362017Utah195 South 100 East Street, Logan, Cache County3092007 VermontSaxtons River, Windam County352VirginiaAlong the Potomac River in Great Falls, Fairfax County3962015Virginia200 N. George Washington Highway, Deep Creek, City of Chesapeake3912018Washington345West VirginiaNear Rippon, Jefferson County398West VirginiaNear Linden, Roane County317WisconsinOn Rock Road east of Greenwood Road, Outagamie County3512004Wisconsin1040 Terrace Drive, Elm Grove, Waukesha County346.752013WisconsinStreet tree between 1284 and 1288 North 71st Street, east side of Hart Park, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County345.752007
Other lists of American elm trees Other notable American elm trees include:
The Treaty Elm, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In what is now Penn Treaty Park, the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, is said to have entered into a treaty of peace in 1683 with the native Lenape Turtle Clan under a picturesque elm tree immortalized in a painting by Benjamin West. West made the tree, already a local landmark, famous by incorporating it into his painting after hearing legends (of unknown veracity) about the tree being the location of the treaty. No documentary evidence exists of any treaty Penn signed beneath a particular tree. On 6 March 1810 a great storm blew the tree down. Measurements taken at the time showed it to have a circumference of , and its age was estimated to be 280 years. Wood from the tree was made into furniture, canes, walking sticks and various trinkets that Philadelphians kept as relics.
The Washington Elm, Cambridge, Massachusetts. George Washington is said to have taken command of the American Continental Army under the Washington Elm in Cambridge on 3 July 1775. The tree survived until the 1920s and "was thought to be a survivor of the primeval forest". In 1872, a large branch fell from it and was used to construct a pulpit for a nearby church.Platt, Rutherford, 1001 Questions Answered About Trees, 1992, Courier Dover Publications, , accessed 20 October 2007 The tree, an American White Elm, became a celebrated attraction, with its own plaque, a fence constructed around it and a road moved in order to help preserve it., text was part of a brochure, "originally published in 1993 as a 14-page brochure produced by the Washington State House of Representatives", according to the Web page, accessed 20 October 2007 The tree was cut down (or fell – sources differ) in October 1920 after an expert determined it was dead. The city of Cambridge had plans for it to be "carefully cut up and a piece sent to each state of the country and to the District of Columbia and Alaska," according to The Harvard Crimson. As late as the early 1930s, garden shops advertised that they had cuttings of the tree for sale, although the accuracy of the claims has been doubted. A Harvard "professor of plant anatomy" examined the tree rings days after the tree was felled and pronounced it between 204 and 210 years old, making it at most 62 years old when Washington took command of the troops at Cambridge. The tree would have been a little more than in diameter (at above ground) in 1773.Jack, J. G., "The Cambridge Washington Elm", article in the Bulletin of Popular Information of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum, 10 December 1931, accessed 20 October 2007 In 1896, an alumnus of the University of Washington obtained a rooted cutting of the Cambridge tree and sent it to Professor Edmund Meany at the university. The cutting was planted, cuttings were then taken from it, including one planted on 18 February 1932, the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington, for whom Washington state is named. That tree remains on the campus of the Washington State Capitol. Just to the west of the tree is a small elm from a cutting made in 1979.
"Herbie" in Yarmouth, Maine, stood by present-day East Main Street (Route 88) from 1793 to 2010."Will elm trees make their way back?" St. Joseph's College Magazine At in height, it was believed to be, between 1997 and the date of its felling,According to the plaque on its trunk. the oldestImages of America: Yarmouth, Hall, Alan M., Arcadia (2002) and tallest Ulmus americana in New England. The tree, which partially stood in the front yard of a private residence, had a circumference and (until mid-2008) a crown spread. As of 2003, only twenty of Yarmouth's original 739 elms had survived Dutch elm disease."Champion of Trees" - American Profile In August 2009 it was revealed that, after battling fifteen bouts of Dutch elm disease, the tree had lost, and on 19 January 2010 it was cut down."Farewell to Herbie and a 'beautiful relationship'". Portland Press Herald, 19 January 2010 The Liberty Tree, an elm on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts, was a rallying point for the growing resistance to the rule of England over the American colonies. The Great Elm on Boston Common, supposed to have been in existence before the settlement of Boston, at the time of its destruction by the storm of 15 February 1876 measured in circumference. George Washington's Elm, Washington, D.C. George Washington supposedly had a favorite spot under an elm tree near the United States Capitol Building from which he would watch construction of the building. The elm stood near the Senate wing of the Capitol building until 1948. The Logan Elm stood near Circleville, Ohio. The tree had a trunk circumference of and a crown spread of . Weakened by Dutch elm disease, the tree died in 1964 from storm damage. The Logan Elm State Memorial commemorates the site and preserves various associated markers and monuments. According to tradition, Chief Logan of the Mingo tribe delivered a passionate speech at a peace-treaty meeting under this elm in 1774, said to be the most famous speech ever given by a Native American. The Sauble Elm. With a girth of and a height of over , the Sauble Elm, a white elm (Ulmus americana) which once grew beside the banks of the Sauble River between the towns of Hepworth and Sauble Beach in the county of Bruce in the province of Ontario, was one of the largest "wild" elms in North America. The tree succumbed to Dutch elm disease and was felled in 1968. A ring count established that it had begun life in the year 1701. The "Great Elm Tree" at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts is believed to have been standing for at least 200 years. It is being well cared for and receives regular treatments for Dutch elm disease.
The Johnstown Elm, in Johnstown, New York, as of September 2013 did not show any signs of Dutch elm disease. In October 2018 all that remained was a weathered stump, cut perhaps two years earlier. It had a circumference of , a height of , and a crown of . It grew in the front yard of a house in a small upstate city, and was probably over 200 years old. See photo at right. The Philipsburg Elm, Philipsburg, Quebec, was a 280-year-old Ulmus americana, dubbed "the king of elms". It was cut down in March 2009 after death from Dutch elm disease.Radio-Canada, accessed 10 March 2009 "Elmo", Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, a large elm that "once defined the Thayer Street entrance to Brown's new Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs," contracted Dutch elm disease and was torn down in December 2003, according to a campus news release. The tree "was thought to have been between 80 and 100 years old. Wood from the tree, one of the largest on campus, was used in various student art projects.""The Elm Tree Project: Brown's once-mighty 'Elmo' is preserved through artists' project", 14 May 2004, "Contact Mary Jo Curtis", accessed 20 October 2007 The Association Island Elm, New York state. The General Electric think tank organization, the Elfun Society, founded in 1928 at Association Island in the Thousand Islands area of northern New York state, is named after a famous elm tree on the isle. The tree died in the 1970s, but it survives in the elm tree logo still used by Elfun.
The Tabletop Elm in Provo, Utah. Immediately south of the Utah County Administration Building and just east of the Historic Utah County Courthouse in downtown Provo resides possibly a one-of-a-kind elm tree. Officially it is a specimen of Ulmus americana, but is unusual because it grows sideways, making it a "tabletop" elm tree. The tree was planted in 1927, and currently its several branches are supported by specialized braces to allow movement and growth. Every fall seven dump truck loads are required to remove all the leaves. Both reproduction and cloning efforts have been unsuccessful; the tree's seeds do not mature into the tabletop shape.