What kind of tree is this?

Any bark pictures? My initial reaction was Hickory, but the leaves seem a bit too serated.

The leaves look like single leaves arranged alternately on twigs, not a compound leaf (just my opinion of what I'm seeing)...

Chinkapin Oak is my initial "guess" but there are some other options. Closer pictures with bark pictures and/or end-grain pictures would help.

Can't quite make out from the pic, but it does looks like serrations are more pointy than for a chinkapin oak. Possibly a true chestnut (Castanea) ? There are still local populations of American chestnut, Castanea dentata that are still regenerating from old stumps sprouts before getting knocked back by the chestnut blight; or perhaps an Allegheny chinkapin - Castanea pumila. Have you seen any large trees, or are they all small multi-stem sprouts ?

Years back I found An American Chestnut tree in my woods, about 2" dia.
Forgot about it until a few years later while dropping a large maple.
It land dead center on that Chestnut.
Sadly it didn't survive.

That looks like chinkapin oak to me, as well. get it bucked, split and stacked, ASAP. You'll be glad you did in 18/19

No chinkapin oak in little Rhodie - it's definitely American chestnut. Plenty of small trees in the woods in southern New England, and occasionally an actual tree-sized one if you spend enough time in the woods with your wits about you.

Looks like an American Chestnut to me too. I bought a couple disease resistant trees a couple of years ago and it looks exactly like them.

I'll bet none of us has ever burned chestnut!

baseroom said:

I'll bet none of us has ever burned chestnut!

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I have burned quite a bit of chestnut, old telco poles, fence posts. And even trees that had fallen or were hung
up on other trees.
Not very flashy or bright burning but decent heat.
Even tho they had died 100 years ago.

I have burned American Chestnut in a campfire. American Chestnut trees up to about 5 inches diameter are fairly common in the forests here in central PA. As they get larger and the bark begins to split, the chestnut blight fungus gets into the bark and kills the stem. Often the roots live on and send up new shoots.

splions said:

Wondering what this is...

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Was that tree on your property?
Did you take that pic?
These trees are extinct. There are plantations that have been working for decades to reestablish them.
Im pretty sure thats American and not Chinese chestnut.