Need help identifying this tree. Southern live oak ?

[Craig D Peltier]

Hi John, I will be slabbing this. I can cut 69 inches so this is a baby. I don't that it's spalt. I will get a pic of leave. That should tell story. I only counted thirty rings, I don't think a tree that big non coniferous can grow that fast? Wide rings but rings within maybe? Need to cut chunk off split it, sand it to see a few things.
I think the center is mineral stained? Brown and black. The bark is weird, maybe half inch thick only. The leaves were shaped a little like alder but more spade like , not jagged either along edge.
Like to see pics of table.

Hi Craig,
Bruce will know, or make up a good story. Did the neighbors describe the leaves? Is that spalting visible @ the base cut, i.e., dead tree standing? Wide rings, color variation, spalting??, PNW, -- seems like maple.

Can't rmember if I sent you pics of the table I made with the maple slabs I got from you. Turned out really well and the Town was pleased--it looked great and it was free!! Send pics of the slabs when Bruce is done.

Good luck, John

[Craig D Peltier]

Here's a picture of one of the leaves.

[Joe Spear]

Here's a picture of one of the leaves.

That's certainly not from a willow oak.

[Robert LaPlaca]

Here's a picture of one of the leaves.

I agree it not a Willow Oak with that leaf profile, lord only knows I have cleaned enough Willow Oak leaves from the gutters of the house and car...

[Art Mann]

It isn't a live oak or water oak either.

[Craig D Peltier]

Maybe cottonwood. I will look at some of there leaves. I will try silver leaf cottonwood first.

[Don Orr]

That could easily be a Cottonwood. Wide growth rings, dark heart, broad leaves. Sorry if you wanted it to be an Oak.

[Kent A Bathurst]

Gotta check the credentials on that arborist...........

Cottonwood is to southern live oak as raspberries are to roses.

[Thomas Hotchkin]

How about Black Cottonwood. Grows from Alaska to California. Tree makes rapid growth, and in the Puget Sound basin tree are found up to 175'-225 and seven to eight feet in diameter.

[Craig D Peltier]

A guy from Montana today told me it was for sure cottonwood.
Thanks