Serving Lignum, Virginia
Lignum is the Route 3 farm community in eastern Culpeper County, on the high ground between the Rapidan and the Rappahannock, with a post office since 1877.
Local & Insured
Lignum is a Route 3 community in eastern Culpeper County, Virginia, 11.4 road miles and 18 minutes from Culpeper, on high farm ground between the Rapidan and the Rappahannock. It sits at about 404 feet, and its post office has run since November 14, 1877.
This is the quiet end of the county: hay and cattle pasture, ridges of white oak, red oak and hickory, and Rapidan-draining bottoms where sycamore and red maple grow big. Old field edges have gone to pine and redcedar, with dead ash in the hedgerows. Lots are larger here, so fence rows and field edges are as common as yard trees. We pass through most weeks on the Route 3 run.


Removal, stumps, trimming and clearing for the farms along Route 3 and the lanes toward the Rapidan.




Why a Culpeper Crew Comes to Lignum
Lignum is on the road we take to Richardsville, so estimates are grouped and dated quickly. There is no trip charge anywhere in Culpeper County.
Most Lignum places have acreage, and the call is often a fence line gone to cedar and dead ash rather than one yard tree. We clear the line, chip the brush and leave the sound oaks standing.
Virginia pine that seeded into a field forty years ago is now tall, thin and ready to snap in a summer wind. We take the leaners aimed at the house and the barn and talk honestly about the rest.
Lignum is unincorporated, so Culpeper County's code applies. A tree on your own land is your decision; clearing over 10,000 square feet needs a county land-disturbing permit, and bona fide farm clearing is exempt.
No. Lignum is unincorporated, so the Culpeper County Code applies, and it has no permit for a private tree. Paperwork starts with clearing: 10,000 square feet, or any size in a floodplain, on a 15 percent slope, in a wetland or in the Lake Pelham and Mountain Run Lake watershed. Spring brush piles fall under the 4 PM Burning Law. More in our permits guide.
If a fence line on your Lignum place has gone to cedar and dead ash or a field pine is leaning at the barn, call or ask for a free estimate. Storm damage gets an answer the same day or the next; routine work is usually booked within a week or two.
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