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Tree That Owns Itself

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

61% trees around it and 700 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

Notable treeFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km61%
  • wild within 10 km90%
  • species recorded700
  • Altitude228 m

The forest around

61% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 44%Grassland 3%Built-up 52%Trees 63%Grassland 10%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Built-up 27%Trees 73%Grassland 12%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Built-up 14%Trees 75%Grassland 18%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 5%61%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km44%
  • 1–3 km63%
  • 3–6 km73%
  • 6–10 km75%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees63%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up27%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

700 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Yellow passionflower
Yellow passionflowerPassiflora lutea8 recordsTheAlphaWolf · CC BY-SA 3.0
American beautyberry
American beautyberryCallicarpa americana7 recordsAlex Abair · CC BY 4.0
Paper mulberry
Paper mulberryBroussonetia papyrifera6 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
White oak
White oakQuercus alba5 recordsMarty Aligata · CC BY-SA 3.0
Oakleaf hydrangea
Oakleaf hydrangeaHydrangea quercifolia5 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Carolina coralbead
Carolina coralbeadCocculus carolinus5 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Blue mistflower
Blue mistflowerConoclinium coelestinum5 recordsKENPEI · CC BY 3.0
Deertongue
DeertongueDichanthelium clandestinum4 recordsMatthew C. Perry, USGS · Public domain
Maypop
MaypopPassiflora incarnata4 recordsE.nielsen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Confederate-vine
Confederate-vineAntigonon leptopus4 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Bouba assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Kudzu
KudzuPueraria montana4 recordsPhoto by Peggy Greb. · Public domain
Pigeon Berry
Pigeon BerryPhytolacca americana4 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 61%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 700Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 228 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in March and in November.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan11°0°103 mm
  2. Feb13°2°110 mm
  3. Mar18°6°113 mm
  4. Apr23°10°92 mm
  5. May28°15°98 mm
  6. Jun32°19°110 mm
  7. Jul34°21°116 mm
  8. Aug33°20°109 mm
  9. Sep30°17°95 mm
  10. Oct24°10°86 mm
  11. Nov18°4°96 mm
  12. Dec13°2°132 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tree That Owns Itself.

Tree in Georgia

Tree That Owns Itself is a notable tree in United States, 228 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 61% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

700 species have been recorded around it: 116 plants, 366 fungi, 207 birds and 11 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Yellow passionflower, American beautyberry and Paper mulberry.

The best time to walk is in March and in November.

Tree That Owns Itself seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Tree That Owns Itself seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmTree That Owns Itself, Moon Tree
  • 200picnic sites within 4 km
  • 30shelters and huts within 6 kmHallmark Bus Depot and 29 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmAthens Welcome Center, Four Towers, Sandy Creek Education & Visitor Center and 1 more
  • 750car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmBulldog Park
  • 26places to stay within 10 kmGeorgia Gameday Center, Americas Best Value Inn, Best Western Athens and 23 more
  • 140restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Tree That Owns Itself.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Coon Mountain14 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Dam Number 100.8 km² · 8.5 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Tree That Owns Itself

United States

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 61%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 700Species

Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest

United States · 112 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 172Species

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Nantahala National Forest

United States · 143 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 143Species

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Pisgah National Forest

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  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 452Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1421130) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species45,215 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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