Two separate problems arrived at once. The immediate one is unsupported mass suspended in the air — hung limbs and cracked-but-attached wood have no predictable timing and come down with no wind at all. The longer one is that a torn top is a wound the tree cannot close, dropping a decay column straight down the center of the stem and leaving no leader to rebuild from. Whether this tree has a future is a question for next month. Whether anyone should be standing under it is a question for right now. In Danville — Danville Main Street Historic District and Danville Courthouse Square Historic District included, that's normally a storm damage cleanup job at $400–$4,000. Call tonight.
Why this comes up 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.
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.