Tree Service in Arp, TX

Tree Service in Arp often means dealing with trees that were planted, or simply allowed to grow, a long time ago. Arp is a small city of 892 people (2020 census) in eastern Smith County. In the 1800s the settlement was called Bissa, a Choctaw and Chickasaw word for blackberry; later it was Jarvis Junction, and then Strawberry, after the berries grown here. It was eventually renamed for Bill Arp, the pen name of Georgia humorist Charles Henry Smith, and the story goes that the short name was easier for strawberry growers to hand-mark on crates.

What old home places hold

Properties around Arp often carry the remnants of that farming past: big pecans by the house, oaks along old fence lines, cedars that came up where birds perched on wire, and the odd fruit tree long past bearing. Many of those trees are now big, old and declining. We see hollow trunks, heavy limbs extended out over roofs and sheds, and root systems damaged by decades of vehicle traffic. Our job is to sort which ones can be pruned and kept and which should come down before they fail.

Empty houses, overgrown lots

At the 2020 census Arp had 407 housing units and 14 percent of them were vacant. Vacant houses and lots tend to collect dead trees and leaning pines that nobody is watching. If you have inherited a home place or bought a lot to fix up, we can clear it in stages: hazards first, then brush and volunteers, then stumps.

April 10, 2017

An EF1 tornado touched down about 3 miles northwest of Arp that night, with peak winds of 80 to 90 mph over a short path of about half a mile, and damaged and uprooted several trees. The same storm produced a stronger EF1 near Overton. Short-lived tornadoes like that, and the straight-line winds that come with spring storms, are the main reason we get called to Arp for emergency cleanup.

Near Lake Tyler

Arp is one of the towns closest to Lake Tyler, the city of Tyler's water-supply lake built in 1949 and joined to Lake Tyler East in 1968. Many rural properties between Arp and the lake are wooded acreage, and we do removals, pruning and lot clearing there as well.

What we usually do in Arp

• Remove declining pecans, oaks and cedars around old homes
• Prune heavy limbs back from roofs, barns and sheds
• Clear storm damage and hanging limbs after spring storms
• Clean up vacant lots and fence lines
• Grind stumps so ground can be mowed or replanted

Call (903) 636-8096 to set up a visit. We walk the property with you and send a written estimate. Get a free estimate