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Massive old oak with heavy spreading scaffold limbs in a hardwood stand

County seat: Tonganoxie

Tree Service in Leavenworth County

Acreages and hedge rows northeast of Lawrence.

Free written estimates · Cleanup included · Monday to Friday, 8 to 5

Leavenworth County tree service questions

What parts of Leavenworth County do you cover?

Tonganoxie, Linwood, and the acreage ground between them, roughly twenty-five to thirty minutes northeast of Lawrence. Most of the work here is hedge rows, bottomland removals, and acreage clearing rather than tight urban jobs.

How do I get a burn permit?

Through the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office, either on their site or by calling dispatch on the day you plan to burn. Burns run from seven in the morning to seven in the evening unless your township fire chief permits otherwise. Because authorization is granted day-of, larger clearing jobs are usually easier to mulch than to burn.

Can a hedge row be cleared without taking out the fence?

Yes. Stems get dropped back into the field rather than across the wire, cleanup near the fence line happens by hand or with a mulcher head set shallow, and we cut on the assumption that old wire is buried in the trunks. It is slower than open clearing and priced accordingly, but the fence stays up.

Do the cities here have different tree rules?

Yes. Tonganoxie's ordinance puts the cost of right-of-way tree treatment and removal on the city rather than on abutting owners, sets fourteen feet of clearance over streets, and runs a ten day abatement clock. Linwood follows a similar model code but publishes less of it, so confirm specifics with City Hall. Unincorporated ground has no municipal rules at all.

I have trees that were topped off by the 2019 tornado. What should I do?

Have them assessed. Sprout regrowth from below a snapped stem attaches to the outer wood only and sits above a decay column that has been advancing since the break. A reduction buys real time on some of them. Others are better taken down on a schedule you choose rather than one a storm chooses.

Do you cover all of Leavenworth County?

Yes. We work Tonganoxie, Linwood and the ground between them. If your address is rural and not near any of those, call and we will tell you straight away whether it is in range.

What trees are we dealing with in Leavenworth County?

Mostly Osage orange, Honeylocust, Eastern redcedar, Bur oak, Cottonwood, Silver maple, and sycamore. Osage orange hedge rows planted generations ago as living fence are now grown around the wire. Clearing one without destroying the fence is slower work than it looks from the road, and it is most of what we do out here.

How fast can you reach Leavenworth County in an emergency?

We work Monday to Friday. After a widespread wind or ice event every crew in the region books up within a day, so we move storm work ahead of scheduled jobs and triage by hazard, taking trees on structures and blocked access first. Call and we will tell you where you actually land in the queue.

Is the estimate free?

Yes, and you do not need to be home. We walk the property, take measurements, and send the written quote the same day.

What happens next

Three steps, and the first one takes 45 seconds

No sales visit, no pressure, and a written number before anyone touches a saw.

  1. Front of a residential property with mature landscaping 1

    Tell us about the tree

    Three questions, about 45 seconds. Or call and skip the form. Lawrence and Topeka use the same form.

  2. Aerial view of a home surrounded by mature trees 2

    We come look at it

    We walk the property, check access, and write the quote on site. Free, and you do not need to be home. Tree removal, tree trimming, and stump grinding all get quoted that way.

  3. A Kansas home with established trees and lawn 3

    We do the work and clean up

    Crew arrives in the window we quoted. Chips, limbs, and debris leave with us unless you want them kept. Storm jobs follow emergency tree removal first, then cleanup.

In a hurry? Call (785) 371-4859 and skip all three.

Burn permits run through the Sheriff's Office

Leavenworth County handles open burning differently from its neighbors, and the contact point surprises people: the Sheriff's Office. Permits are obtained through the sheriff's site or by calling dispatch on the day you intend to burn, and the county resolution governing it sets a daytime window that opens at seven in the morning and closes at seven in the evening unless your township fire chief allows otherwise.

Day-of authorization means the plan cannot be made a week ahead, which matters on acreage clearing where the pile is already built and the weather is not cooperating. Forestry mulching sidesteps the whole arrangement by leaving the material on the ground as cover instead of turning a cleared fence line into something that has to be disposed of at all.

  • Permits through the Sheriff's Office site or by calling dispatch the day of the burn
  • Daytime window from seven in the morning to seven in the evening
  • Township fire chiefs can authorize outside that window
  • Mulching in place avoids both the permit and the wind forecast
Looking up through the dense green canopy and branching structure of a mature oak

Hedge rows, and the statute that reaches into them

Osage orange was planted as living fence across this county long before wire was affordable, and the rows that remain are now grown around the fences that replaced them. Clearing one properly is slow work. The wood dulls chain fast, stems fork low and lean into each other, and buried barbed wire is a near certainty inside older trunks.

Kansas law also gives county commissioners standing to act on hedge along a county road. They may cut hedge fences, trees, and shrubs on the highway right of way or its boundary within 350 feet of a railroad grade crossing or an abrupt corner, and keep them trimmed to preserve clear vision. If your row runs through one of those locations, coordinating the clearing is easier than waiting for someone else to schedule it.

Climber in orange protective chaps and helmet seated in the crotch of a mature hardwood with a chainsaw

May 28, 2019 is still the reference point

The tornado that crossed the Kansas River that evening intensified in the bottoms and reached low-end EF4 on the west side of Linwood, with an official estimate of 170 miles per hour and a research probe recording higher. Leavenworth County took roughly twenty-six million dollars in damage, with dozens of structures affected and nineteen destroyed, and nobody was killed.

The tree consequences did not end that night. Stems snapped mid-height regrow from dormant buds below the break, and that regrowth attaches shallowly to a stub that has been decaying since the wound opened. Trees that were stubbed in 2019 and left standing are now carrying enough sprout weight to catch wind on attachments that were never structural. Emerald ash borer has been confirmed in this county since 2014, which adds a second population of trees quietly getting more brittle every season.

Climber high on a bare trunk cutting a section free with a chainsaw as rigging rope runs down against a blue sky

Leavenworth County at a glance

Osage orange hedge rows planted generations ago as living fence are now grown around the wire. Clearing one without destroying the fence is slower work than it looks from the road, and it is most of what we do out here.

Other counties we cover

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Coverage

Lawrence, Topeka, and everything between

We cover 14 towns across 5 counties. If your town is not pinned, call anyway. We are usually closer than you think.

Home base
2229 Marvonne Rd
Lawrence, KS 66047
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