My tree came through Beryl. Is it fine?

Maybe. Wind damage often shows as a crack at a fork, a hanger in the crown or a slight new lean, none of which is obvious from the street. If nobody has looked, it belongs in the soon tier.

There is a creek behind my lot. Does that matter?

Wetter ground holds roots less firmly in a long rain. A tree near the creek that has started to lean is worth a look sooner.

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A subdivision built from 1968 among towering pines and oaks, and one of the Spring neighborhoods named in the reporting on Hurricane Beryl.

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Development of Northampton began in 1968 under Glenn McMillan. The subdivision lies north of Spring Cypress Road, west of Gosling Road and south of the Montgomery County line, with Willow Creek running through the area. It has about 1,400 homes, “serenely hidden from the bustle of nearby roads and highways by towering pine and oak trees mixed with sweet gum and Chinese tallow trees.”

Source: Northampton Municipal Utility District, “The Northampton Story,” by resident Jack Hickey.

The oldest canopy on this list

Northampton was built into existing woods, so many of its trees are older than the houses. That brings the two problems of an old canopy together: big pines that have had decades to accumulate stress, and wide oaks whose limbs have grown out over roofs that were built beneath them.

When Hurricane Beryl came through Spring in July 2024, Community Impact named Northampton among the neighborhoods that took significant damage.

Northampton Questions

My tree came through Beryl. Is it fine?
Maybe. Wind damage often shows as a crack at a fork, a hanger in the crown or a slight new lean, none of which is obvious from the street. If nobody has looked, it belongs in the soon tier.
There is a creek behind my lot. Does that matter?
Wetter ground holds roots less firmly in a long rain. A tree near the creek that has started to lean is worth a look sooner.

A tree on a wire is CenterPoint Energy’s call first. The utility says to stay at least 35 feet from a downed line.

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Northampton Tree Request

Say how tall the tree is and what it would hit. That is most of what the company needs to know first.

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