Unsupported mass held in place by friction and a bark hinge. There is no mechanism keeping it up that you can inspect or trust, and release does not require wind — plenty come down on still mornings. The trade name is literal: it kills people who are looking at something else on the ground. In Danville — Danville Main Street Historic District and Danville Courthouse Square Historic District included, that's normally a emergency tree service job at $500–$3,500. Call tonight.
Why this comes up in Danville
Middle-aged and trending newer: Census ACS figures reproduced in regional planning data show 66.7 percent of Danville's units predate 2000, 24.4 percent were built between 2000 and 2013, and 8.9 percent in 2014 or later, with the town's 2021 comprehensive plan counting over 4,100 housing units and more than 500 added since 2010. The result is a genuinely old core around the courthouse square with 1840s–1920s houses and century-old street trees, ringed by subdivisions whose trees are 10 to 25 years old.
Danville's canopy
The Main Street Historic District developed circa 1844–1920 across just 9 acres and 37 contributing buildings, and the Courthouse Square district circa 1865–1960 over 70 acres — those blocks hold the town's oldest and largest trees on narrow lots with sidewalks on both sides. Danville does actively manage its right-of-way canopy through a standing Tree Advisory Committee, though the specific inventory and replanting-ratio requirements attributed to Chapter 97 could not be verified.
Who to call first in Danville
Duke Energy Indiana serves the town and the area south and east, per the IURC's service-territory GIS; just north of Danville the territory becomes Hendricks Power Cooperative, an REMC. Danville runs municipal water, wastewater and stormwater — roughly 3,500 water customers in Center Township — but not electric. Worth knowing: 170 IAC 4-9's two-week-notice and 25-percent-canopy-consent rules are written for investor-owned utilities and name Duke, AES/IPL, I&M, NIPSCO and CenterPoint — not the REMCs.
Hendricks County (county seat) County rules
No permit is required to remove a tree on private property in Danville. Beyond that, the town's Chapter 97 tree code could not be verified from a retrievable source: what danvillein.gov does confirm is that a three-member Tree Advisory Committee exists to encourage the planting, care and preservation of trees in the public right-of-way. Chapter 97 is reported to require written permission from that committee and the Staff Project Coordinator before removing, or trimming more than one-fifth of, any right-of-way tree, on a free 30-day permit — confirm that requirement with Town Hall before any work in the tree lawn.