In Huron County.  From the ODNR:

 

 

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OHIO IS HOME TO NATIONAL CHAMPION BUCKEYES

BOTH THE TREE AND FOOTBALL VARIETY!

Nation’s largest Ohio buckeye tree stands in Huron County

 

COLUMBUS, OH - In a year when the Ohio State Buckeyes are aiming for a national championship in college football, it’s important to note the state is also home to the national champion Ohio buckeye tree, according to American Forests, a conservation organization based in Washington D.C. American Forests catalogs the nation’s “Big Trees,” the largest examples of 826 tree species in the country.

 

Standing a full 77-feet high, with a crown spread of 64 feet and a trunk circumference of 140 inches, the largest Ohio buckeye tree in the United States is located on private property in Huron County, about a mile south of Fitchville on State Route 13.

 

“The tree is easily glimpsed from the highway, but it is on private property and we caution anyone anxious to snap a photo or otherwise get up close to keep that fact in mind,” said Dan Balser, a forester with ODNR’s Big Tree Program.

 

National champion trees are “crowned,” based on a formula that awards points for height, circumference and crown spread. Trees within five points are considered co-champions.

 

Ten other national champion “Big Trees” grow in Ohio, including an Oriental arborvitae and common persimmon, both near Portsmouth in Scioto County; Kentucky coffeetree near Madison in Lake County; Siberian elm near Londonderry in Ross County; cucumbertree magnolia near North Canton in Stark County; Norway maple near Gambier in Knox County; chinkapin oak near Marietta in Washington County; shingle oak, two-wing silverbell, and yellowwood all near Cincinnati in Hamilton County.

 

For additional information on Ohio’s Big Trees, visit ohiodnr.com or americanforests.org.

 

http://ohiodnr.com/news/sep06/0906bigtrees.htm

 

and isn't the oldest buckeye tree in North Bend, Ohio?

We used to have one in our front yard when i was growing up. THEY SUCK. It killed the grass and you could get stuck by them.

Ohh shoot i guess it wasn't a buckeye tree. I always thought it was. But i guess it was a chestnut tree.

 

I got it right now. ;)

and isn't the oldest buckeye tree in North Bend, Ohio?

 

I have no idea.

The nation's biggest buckeye tree doesn't really look all that big...I mean, it's big, but not "big tree" big...but hey, yay for Fitchville!

The nation's biggest buckeye tree doesn't really look all that big...I mean, it's big, but not "big tree" big...but hey, yay for Fitchville!

 

I don't think they get very big. There used to be a row of very old ones along the river in the park near my house, and I don't think any of them were more than 20 feet tall. They tended to spread outward rather than growing a tall central trunk.

 

Eventually they all died; I don't know if it was old age, or if the increased frequency of long-lasting high water in the park did them in.

that was kinda fun to play on the big tree database, go go giant sequoia

Any photos?

Another Firelands claim to fame.......... LOL :)

Say, completely off-topic, but what did the term "Firelands" originate from?

We had to learn about this in elementary school and then again in high school (although the history of the Firelands is probably only taught in the Firelands  :-) ).

 

Here are some helpful websites:

http://www.rootsandroutes.net/body.htm?http&&&www.rootsandroutes.net/firelands.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firelands

 

Basically, during the Revolutionary War, the British Soldiers burned down the homes and businesses of the coastal towns of Connecticut.  After the war, the state of Connecticut set land aside from the Western Reserve to be given to the "Fire Sufferer's" and their land was called the "Fire Sufferer's Lands", shortened to "Firelands."  (Today, everyone pronounces "Firelands" like you would say "Cleveland.")

 

The Firelands is the western-most part of the Western Reserve (people often mistake the Firelands as not part of the WR, but it is!).  Anyway, the surveyors surveyed 500,000 acres (they actually surveyed 500,027 acres).  The area is present day Erie County and Huron County, and small parts of Ashland County and Ottawa County.

 

So Connecticut basically relocated to North Central Ohio.  That's why you'll find similarities between the two areas:  the names of families, the names of towns, the names of roads, the architecture, heck even some of the ivy growing on homes and buildings in Norwalk was brought from Connecticut!

 

I didn't really go into too much depth, but hopefully this explains it well enough  :-) !

 

Anyway, for my Speech and Communication class I took at community college I did a presentation on the History of the Firelands.  Here are a few of the diagram/maps I used (they aren't to scale....because I created them):

 

 

 

 

..........yeah I know........I'm a local history nut  :-D

Oh yeah........bit of trivia.  This family cemetery is at the back of the farm field on a creek ridge across the street from my home.  Buried here, is a veteran from the Revolutionary War, another from the War of 1812, and another from the Civil War.