location?

Macomb County, MI, outside Detroit.

I’m thinking Fraxinus but the top picture is in dappled light and it’s really hard to see the leaf attachments and buds.

if ash is confirmed.. it might be the only ash left in metro detroit ... due to eab ... i would get rid of it ... before i had to pay to have it removed ....

and if thats the a/c unit next to it in the first pic.. thats another reason to get rid of it .. regardless of the ID ..... you dont want a tree with that much potential.. that close to the house...

if you come to that conclusion.. cut it down to the ground.. and apply a stump killer per label ..

ken

The tree is mostly shaded, and it was hard to get a picture.

Second to last picture looks like walnut

Agree with the others - 1st looks like an ash, 2nd looks like Persian (English) walnut. And I think Ken knows that the ash wouldn't be "the only ash left in metro Detroit" - there are still a lot of ash around, just not many large ash trees.

There are literally millions of ash seedlings in my general region. I'm tolerant of them growing into saplings on my lot (because I don't think they'll last long), tho I notice the borer is attacking those too.

Thanks for all contributions. The second tree one poster said could be a walnut has never produced nuts of any kind.

And the thing is, I would like to remove the ash by the house, and I do worry about it getting too large both height and root wise, but I also don't like nagging and that is what I'd have to do to my husband to get rid of it. He likes this whole "natural" look in the yard; the first tree has a wild grapevine growing through it as if it's a trellis.

In common with many other large growing tree species walnuts originating as seedlings can take 10-20 years to reach fruiting age.