Does a black tupelo (black gum) drop a lot of debris?

Lebanon is the one town of the three with a genuinely mature urban forest: the comprehensive plan identifies 13 neighborhoods clustered around the courthouse square and the east side, and the pre-war ones — Old Northside, Historic Downtown, Longley, Witt Oak Hill — carry canopy old enough to be over the rooflines and into the primary wires, which is exactly the removal and reduction work that dominates here. The city's UDO requires ornamental (short-maturing) trees rather than shade trees wherever overhead utilities are present, an acknowledgment that the existing overstory and the lines are already in conflict; Lebanon has no published tree inventory, so species dominance is not documented. That context matters for black tupelo (black gum): the headline is soil ph: illinois extension lists it as tolerating neither alkaline soil nor salt, and stripped, limestone-influenced subdivision clay is exactly that. Removing a black tupelo (black gum) around Lebanon runs roughly $250–$1,400, and in Old Northside, Historic Downtown and Witt Oak Hill access is usually what decides where in that range you land.