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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:
2000	27
2001	20
2002	25
2003	16
2004	28
2005	23
2006	27
2007	20

By State

State	City	Year Awarded
Alabama	Daphne Dothan Foley Opelika Chelsea Hoover Florence	2000 2002 2002 2002 2008 2008 2007
Arizona	Tempe Snowflake Scottsdale Phoenix	2007 2008 2000 2005
California	Livermore Newport Beach Roseville Anaheim Lompoc Beale AFB Mission Viejo Petaluma Poway Santa Ana Yuba City Concord Garden Grove Tulare	2005 2004 2004 2001 2000 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2007
Colorado	Elizabeth Fort Morgan Durango Highlands Ranch Loveland Windsor Alamosa Grand Junction Westminster Lamar	2008 2008 2001 2000 2001 2001 2003 2003 2003 2004
Florida	Miami Springs Coral Springs Windermere Gainesville Lantana Orlando Plantation St. Augustine Winter Park Deerfield Beach North Miami Winter Springs	2004 2005 2005 1991 2001 2000 2000 2001 2000 2007 2007 2007
Georgia	Berkeley Lake Camilla Moody AFB Cornelia Covington Gainesville Macon Dalton Savannah	2008 2008 2008 2000 2002 2000 2000 2004 2004
Idaho	Lewiston Moscow Aberdeen Filer Inkom Malad Payette Rockland	2001 2003 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008
Illinois	Berkeley Elburn Geneva Normal Ottawa Bolingbrook Brookfield Chicago Elgin Elmhurst Lincolnshire Lombard Moline Naperville Urbana Wilmette Addison Hazel Crest Park Ridge Skokie Glen Ellyn Palos Park Champaign Genoa Mount Vernon Orland Park	2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2002 2002 2000 2002 2002 2000 2002 2002 2001 2001 2003 2005 2005 2005 2005 2004 2004 1993 1995 1997 1991
Indiana	Madison Middlebury Carmel Anderson Elkhart Greencastle Rochester Winamac	1997 2007 2005 2002 2000 2008 2008 2008
Iowa	Arnolds Park Deep River Denver Pisgah Dubuque Dysart Fredericksburg Grundy Center Mapleton Mount Vernon Muscatine Waterloo Dewitt Marion Clarinda Johnston Keystone Polk City Allison Badger Fayette Waverly Cedar Rapids Marshalltown Glidden	2008 2008 2008 2008 2000 2000 2002 2001 2002 2001 2002 2000 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 2004 2007 2007 2007 2007 2005 2005 1997
Kansas	Hutchinson Mulvane McPherson Roeland Park Bonner Springs Lawrence Merriam Olathe Overland Park El Dorado Lindsborg Ottawa Oxford Park City	2007 2007 2004 2004 2001 2001 2001 2002 2000 2003 2003 2008 2008 2008
Kentucky	Warren County	1997
Louisiana	Alexandria Shreveport	1995 1997
Maryland	Laurel Baltimore NAS Patuxent River Ocean City Westminster	1994 2005 2002 2001 2000
Massachusetts	Sturbridge Andover Marblehead Nantucket Saugus	1995 2008 2008 2008 2008
Michigan	Auburn Hills Grand Blanc Muskegon Northville Maplewood Alpena Hillsdale Oak Park Berkley	2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2005 2005 2004
Minnesota	Minneapolis Red Wing	2004 2008
Mississippi	Horn Lake Lucedale Laurel	2008 1996 2005
Missouri	St. Louis Maplewood Mountain View Trenton Carthage Hannibal Branson	2005 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007
Montana	Broadus Red Lodge	2008 2008
Nebraska	Central City Creighton Bassett Morrill Auburn Columbus Gretna Beatrice Gering Lincoln Offutt AFB Papillion Battle Creek	2007 2007 2008 2008 2004 2004 1993 2002 2001 2000 2000 2002 2003
Nevada	Henderson	1995
New Hampshire	Meredith Franconia Franklin Portsmouth Rochester	2005 2008 2008 2008 2008
New Jersey	Bordentown Collingswood Demarest Milltown Wallington Washington Pennsauken Paramus South Brunswick Stafford Secaucus	2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2004 2000 2002 2000 2003
New Mexico	Clovis Law Vegas San Jon Tucumcari	2008 2008 2008 2008
New York	Lancaster Ithaca Garden City Mineola	2008 2004 1994 1992
North Carolina	Hendersonville Wilson Asheville Farmville Oak Island Chapel Hill Taylorsville	1997 2001 2003 2003 2007 2008 2008
North Dakota	Wahpeton Hazen Grand Forks AFB	2003 1991 2005
Ohio	Perrysburg Groveport Lebanon Cincinnati Bowling Green Montgomery	2005 1996 1992 2004 2002 2008
Oklahoma	Edmond Alva Midwest City Muskogee	2008 2003 2004 1997
Oregon	Echo La Grande Portland Bend Tualatin	2004 2001 2001 2008 2006
Pennsylvania	Easton Factoryville Westmont Emporium Williamsport	2008 2008 2008 2002 2005
Rhode Island	Warwick	2008
South Carolina	Shaw AFB	2008
South Dakota	Ellsworth AFB Spencer	2008 2008
Tennessee	Bristol Jackson	2000 2000
Texas	Euless Grapevine Waco Arlington Brownsville Victoria Southlake	2000 2002 1996 2008 2008 2008 2007
Utah	Cedar City Draper Spanish Fork Woods Cross Moab Salt Lake City Provo	2008 2008 2008 2008 2004 2000 2003
Virginia	Herndon Front Royal Langley AFB Salem	2000 2008 2008 2008
Washington	Lynnwood Redmond Waterville Bellevue Seattle Fairchild AFB Issaquah	2008 2008 2008 2002 2001 2004 2005
Wisconsin	Chilton Stoughton Fond du Lac Fort Atkinson Greenfield Appleton Marinette Hobart Muskego Oconto Paddock Lake Richland Center Superior Wautoma Wautoma Wescott	1995 1997 2004 2004 2004 2002 2002 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008
Wyoming	Evanston Cheyenne Worland	2008 1997 2005

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