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Tree City USA—Sterling Communities

The Tree City USA Growth Award is given to communities that go beyond the four standards of Tree City USA and accumulate points from a list of projects that demonstrate improvement and growth of local tree care.

As Tree City USA begins its second quarter-century of serving America, The Arbor Day Foundation is pleased to announce the Sterling award. A community wins this award after participating in the Growth Award program for 10 years.

Sterling Communities

By Year

Year	Total Number of Sterling Communities:
2009	28
2008	25
2007	21
2006	26
2005	24
2004	27
2003	17
2002	28
2001	24
2000	27

State	City	Year Awarded
Alabama	Daphne Dothan Foley Opelika Florence Eufaula	1997 2002 2002 2002 2007 2008
Arizona	Scottsdale Phoenix Tempe Litchfield Park	2000 2005 2007 2009
California	Lompoc Anaheim Newport Beach Roseville Livermore Concord Garden Grove Tulare Pasadena Santa Clara South Pasadena Tustin	2000 2001 2004 2004 2005 2007 2007 2007 2009 2009 2009 2009
Colorado	Highlands Ranch Durango Loveland Windsor Alamosa Grand Junction Westminster Lamar	2000 2001 2001 2001 2003 2003 2003 2004
Connecticut	Wethersfield	2008
Florida	Orlando Plantation Winter Park Lantana St. Augustine Coral Springs Eustis Fort Myers Miami Springs Windermere Gainesville Deerfield Beach North Miami Winter Springs Lake Park Largo	2000 2000 2000 2001 2001 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2006 2007 2007 2007 2008 2009
Georgia	Cornelia Gainesville Macon Covington Dalton Savannah Warners Robins	2000 2000 2000 2002 2004 2004 2009
Idaho	Lewiston Moscow Boise Post Falls	2001 2003 2009 2009
Illinois	Chicago Lincolnshire Naperville Urbana Bolingbrook Brookfield Elgin Elmhurst Lombard Moline Skokie Wilmette Glen Ellyn Oak Park Palos Park Addison Hazel Crest Park Ridge Champaign Genoa Mount Vernon Orland Park Downers Grove Evanston Homewood Northbrook St. Charles	2000 2000 2001 2001 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2005 2006 2006 2006 2006 2008 2008 2008 2008 2009
Indiana	Elkhart Anderson Carmel Madison Middlebury Indianapolis Noblesville	2000 2002 2005 2006 2007 2008 2008
Iowa	Dubuque Dysart Waterloo Clinton Des Moines Grundy Center Mount Vernon Fredericksburg Mapleton Muscatine DeWitt Marion Clarinda Johnston Keystone Polk City Cedar Rapids Marshalltown Glidden Waverly Allison Badger Fayette George Washington	2000 2000 2000 2001 2001 2001 2001 2002 2002 2002 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2008 2009
Kansas	Overland Park Bonner Springs Lawrence Merriam Olathe El Dorado Lindsborg McPherson Roeland Park Hutchison Mulvane	2000 2001 2001 2001 2002 2003 2003 2004 2004 2007 2007
Kentucky	Owensboro Warren County Henderson	2001 2006 2009
Louisiana	Alexandria Shreveport	2006 2006
Maine	Bath	2008
Maryland	Westminster Ocean City NAS Patuxent River Baltimore Laurel	2000 2001 2002 2005 2006
Massachusetts	Worcester	2008
Michigan	Berkley Hillsdale Oak Park Gross Pointe Park	2004 2005 2005 2008
Minnesota	Minneapolis White Bear Lake	2004 2008
Mississippi	Laurel Lucedale Oxford	2005 2006 2008
Missouri	St. Louis Branson St. Peters	2005 2007 2009
Montana	Kalispell Missoula	2001 2002
Nebraska	Lincoln Offutt AFB Gering Beatrice Papillon Battle Creek Auburn Columbus Gretna Central City Creighton	2000 2000 2001 2002 2002 2003 2004 2004 2006 2007 2007
Nevada	Henderson Nellis AFB	2006 2009
New Hampshire	Meredith	2005
New Jersey	Paramus Stafford South Brunswick Secaucus Clifton Hawthorne	2000 2000 2002 2003 2008 2009
New York	Ithaca Mineola Garden City Kingston Greece USMA West Point	2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
North Carolina	Wilson Wake Forest Weaverville Asheville Farmville Hendersonville Statesville Oak Island Jacksonville	2001 2002 2002 2003 2003 2006 2006 2007 2008
North Dakota	Wahpeton Grand Forks AFB Hazen Jamestown Cavalier Air Station	2003 2005 2006 2008 2009
Ohio	Bowling Green Cincinnati Perrysburg Groveport Lebanon Montgomery Ravenna Bryan	2002 2004 2005 2006 2006 2008 2008 2009
Oklahoma	Alva Midwest City Muskogee Guthrie Morrison	2003 2004 2006 2008 2009
Oregon	La Grande Portland Echo Tualatin Medford	2001 2001 2004 2005 2009
Pennsylvania	Emporium Williamsport Cheltenham Montgomery Township Whitpain West Chester	2002 2005 2008 2008 2008 2009
Tennessee	Bristol Jackson Clarksville	2000 2000 2009
Texas	Euless Grapevine New Braunfels Waco Southlake Fort Worth Grand Prairie	2000 2002 2004 2006 2007 2009 2009
Utah	Salt Lake City Provo Moab	2000 2003 2004
Virginia	Herndon Front Royal	2000 2009
Washington	Seattle Bellevue Fairchild AFB Vancouver Walla Walla	2001 2002 2004 2009 2009
Wisconsin	Appleton Marinette Fond de Lac Fort Atkinson Greenfield Chilton Stoughton Stevens Point	2002 2002 2004 2004 2004 2006 2006 2009
Wyoming	Cheyenne	2006

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