While General Sherman is the largest living tree, it is not the largest historically recorded tree. The Crannell Creek Giant, a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) cut down in the mid-1940s …

Nov 25, 2025 · The trunk of General Sherman alone weighs nearly 1,400 tons. That is roughly equivalent to 15 adult blue whales, 10 diesel-electric train locomotives, or 25 military battle …

Aug 6, 2025 · With a diameter of 25 feet and an estimated bole volume of 52,513 cubic feet, the General Sherman Tree is among the tallest, widest, and longest-lived trees on Earth, with an …

General Sherman is the largest known single-stem tree currently living, by volume. It is estimated to be well over 2,000 years old - some estimates judge it to be as much as 3,200 years old.

In 2011, the tree was 472 cm (15 ft 5.8 in) diameter and 43.5 m (142 ft 8.6 in) tall and had an estimated aboveground dry mass of 141 tonnes (155 US tons). The tallest living tree overall …

…giant sequoia specimen is the General Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park. That tree measures 31 metres (101.5 feet) in circumference at its base, is 83 metres (272.4 feet) tall, …

Feb 5, 2024 · It’s just thirty feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty. It weighs over 2,000 tons, the same weight as 400 elephants. Its base measures 36 feet in diameter, which means you could …

This dean of the Sierra forests was discovered by James Wolverton on August 7, 1879. He named the tree in honor of General Sherman, under whom he had served dur ing the Civil War …

Sep 11, 2024 · Located in the Sequoia National Park, the General Sherman Tree is the largest known living single stem tree on earth. The tree is thought to be between 2,300 to 2,700 years …

General Sherman Tree weight: 4 million pounds The reason that giant sequoias are so large in terms of volume is that they maintain a massive diameter higher up than most other kinds of …