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Tree Service in McKinney
The Collin County seat has Frisco's young trees on its west side and something Frisco barely has at its center.
One City, Two Ages of Tree
Census survey figures give McKinney a median housing build year of 2007, two years ahead of Frisco. Unlike Frisco, it was a substantial town long before the suburbs reached it.
West McKinney reads like Frisco: subdivisions from the 2000s and 2010s with shade trees the same age as the houses, now reaching the stage where they need lifting off sidewalks and pulling back from roofs. Everything on this site about builder-planted trees applies there without adjustment.
The older streets near the square are another matter. Trees there can be several times the age of anything in a subdivision, on lots laid out before anyone planned for a crown that wide. Work on them is slower, involves more deadwood and more weight reduction, and deserves a certified arborist's opinion before any large removal.
Shared With Frisco, and Not
- Shared: the county. Emerald ash borer was confirmed in Collin County in 2024. An ash in McKinney is in the same position as an ash in Frisco.
- Shared: the soil. Collin County lies almost entirely in the Blackland Prairie, with deep clay that cracks in dry weather.
- Shared: the oak calendar. February through June is the period to avoid pruning oaks, here as anywhere in Texas.
- Not shared: the rules. McKinney has its own tree and landscape ordinances and its own yard waste service.
Nothing on this site's permit page describes McKinney's code. For a McKinney address, particularly in the historic area, ask the city before removing a large tree.
Which electric utility serves an address varies in McKinney as it does in Frisco. The bill names it, and that is the company to call about any limb near a line.
A Tree in McKinney
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