Overgrown lots, old fencerows, honeysuckle thickets and small trees, cleared and hauled off, not mulched and left on your ground. We work out of Lexington, sixteen miles down I-75, so a Scott County job is a normal day's work rather than a trip we have to build a route around.
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Most people who call us about an overgrown lot around Georgetown weren't planning a landscaping project. Something arrived in the post, or they think it's about to. Here it's a different question from the one people ask in Lexington, and a fair few get the answer wrong.
Inside the Georgetown city limits, it's the city. Georgetown Code Enforcement investigates tall grass and property maintenance among other things. An officer issues a Notice of Violation or a Citation, and the owner is given a set amount of time either to put it right or to contest it. That office is on (502) 603-5844, at 125 W Clinton Street.
Outside them, in unincorporated Scott County, it's the Fiscal Court's ordinance, and this is the part people get wrong. The county's weeds-and-high-grass ordinance applies to residential areas, and it defines those by zoning district rather than by what the land looks like:
It is not a blanket rule over every acre in the county. If your ground is not in one of those categories, the county ordinance is not what's reaching you.
One statewide rule sits over both of them, and it's the one worth understanding. Under KRS 65.8840 a local government has to give the owner proper notice and a right to a hearing, but if it goes ahead and abates the nuisance itself, it takes a lien against the property covering the civil fines, the charges, the fees and the abatement costs, and the owner is personally liable for that amount. Having it cut for you is almost always the expensive way to get it cut.
And the exception that matters most around here. The same statute says its provisions "shall not be enforced by a county government upon any premises situated in an unincorporated portion of the county that is assessed as agricultural land for tax purposes." A great deal of ground around Georgetown is still assessed that way. If somebody has told you the county is about to clear your field and send you the bill, it is worth checking how your parcel is assessed before you agree to anything.
This is a plain-English summary, not legal advice, and we're deliberately not quoting you a height in inches. Lexington-Fayette publishes a single figure; Georgetown and Scott County work through their own ordinances and their own enforcement offices, and what applies to your lot is a question for them rather than for us. Georgetown Code Enforcement, (502) 603-5844, is the authority inside the city, and the Scott County Fiscal Court's ordinances outside it. Send us photos and we'll tell you what we can see from them. Send photos and ask
Every job here ends the same way: the material on a truck and off your property. See the full land clearing service
The one that comes with a letter attached.
Vacant lots, rentals between tenants and back halves of properties that got away over a couple of summers, including the dense thickets along the lines nobody mows, which around Georgetown usually means bush honeysuckle with company. Inside the city limits this is the job most often driven by a notice.
Overgrown lot clearing, in detail
Ground that stopped being grazed.
Scott County has a great deal of small acreage that was worked or grazed within living memory. Bringing it back is a different job from clearing a suburban lot, and it's priced differently.
Pasture & field reclamation
Clearing a line, not an area.
Drives, fence lines and access routes. On county acreage this is very often the whole job: getting equipment in, getting the sight line back at the end of a long drive, keeping a fence line workable.
Right-of-way clearing
Clearing to a plan, not just to tidy.
Getting a lot, pad, drive or outbuilding site ready to work on. Georgetown has been building steadily for decades, and a fair share of that has gone up on ground that was farmed before it was platted.
Site preparation
Under about 20 feet. Taller than that is a tree service.
Volunteer trees and the scrub that comes up along an unworked line, plus the stumps they leave behind. On reclaimed pasture that twenty-foot cap matters more than it does on a town lot: there is usually at least one that has been standing longer than the fence.
Tree removal & stump grindingClearing ground that used to be pasture is not the same job as clearing a back lot, and the difference usually isn't the brush.
Amur bush honeysuckle spreads by birds eating the fruit and dropping the seed, and a mature plant puts out an enormous number of them. It leafs out earlier in spring and holds its leaves later in autumn than the natives around it, so it gets a longer growing season than anything competing with it. On ground that was grazed it rarely comes alone: briars, volunteer locust and scrub build up along the old line with it.
Two or three seasons is all it takes for a fence line to go from walkable to impassable, without anybody doing anything wrong.
We cut it, load it and haul it off, and you get the ground back. But cutting alone doesn't kill honeysuckle: it resprouts from the stump, and lasting control takes either repeated cutting over several years or herbicide treatment of the cut stumps. We clear and haul; we don't spray. Your county Extension office will tell you what to put on the stumps and when, and it's a far cheaper job once the thicket is down to them.
And tell us if the ground was ever fenced. Old woven and barbed wire grows into a fencerow and none of it shows in a photograph. It has to come out by hand, and finding it once the work has started is worse for both of us than knowing about it beforehand.
These are the same published ranges as the main land clearing service. A page about one city shouldn't quote you a different number from the page about the service. You get a firm figure before anything starts, and you only pay for work completed.
Light brush and undergrowth. A back corner, a side yard, a fence line that's got away from you.
Dense brush and small trees. A full honeysuckle thicket, or ground that hasn't been touched in years.
Clearing plus rough grading, worked to your plan rather than to a tidy-up.
PLACEHOLDER: three real Scott County jobs, before and after. Name the road or the part of the county and what was cleared in each caption; that detail is the part a competitor cannot copy.
PLACEHOLDER: confirm the parts of Scott County Crown actually covers. The list below is the county's main communities, not a coverage list Crown has published.
Outside Scott County? We clear land across Central Kentucky: Lexington, Nicholasville, Richmond, Frankfort, Winchester, Versailles and Paris. The rules described above are Georgetown's and Scott County's: Fayette County publishes a ten-inch limit of its own, and the other counties set their own too.
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If yours isn't here, call: we'd rather answer it before you book than after.
Send the photos with the address, and say whether it's inside the city limits. Whether the date is workable is the first thing we come back on, not the last.
(859) 213-6077It depends on which side of the city line your property is on, which is why there's no single number on this page. Inside the Georgetown city limits, the city's Code Enforcement office handles tall grass and property maintenance: an officer issues a Notice of Violation or a Citation and you're given a set time to correct it or contest it; they're on (502) 603-5844. Outside the city, in unincorporated Scott County, the Fiscal Court's weeds-and-high-grass ordinance applies to residential areas as it defines them by zoning, plus subdivisions with an approved plat, not to every acre in the county. Those two offices are the authority on what applies to your address, and we'd rather send you to them than quote you a figure off a website.
Generally not, and this catches people out. KRS 65.8840 says its provisions "shall not be enforced by a county government upon any premises situated in an unincorporated portion of the county that is assessed as agricultural land for tax purposes." So for ground outside a city that is assessed agricultural, the county's nuisance route doesn't reach you. Two cautions: it says county government, so a property inside the Georgetown city limits is a different question entirely, and what matters is how the parcel is actually assessed rather than what it is being used for. Check the assessment before you assume either way.
It becomes the expensive way of getting it cut. Under KRS 65.8840 a local government has to give you proper notice and a right to a hearing first, but if it abates the nuisance itself, it takes a lien against the property covering the civil fines, the charges, the fees and the abatement costs, and you're personally liable for that amount. A lien also tends to surface at the worst possible moment, which is when you go to sell or refinance.
Yes. It comes back from the stump, and cutting is not the thing that kills it. Getting on top of honeysuckle for good takes either several years of repeated cutting or a herbicide treatment applied to the cut stumps. We do the cutting, the loading and the haul-off; we don't spray, and the Scott County Extension office is the right place to ask what goes on the stumps and when. The useful part is the arithmetic: once a thicket is down to stumps, whoever treats them is dealing with a fraction of the plant they were looking at before. And if that line was ever fenced, say so: old wire grown into a fencerow comes out by hand and never shows up in a photograph.
Light brush and undergrowth on a small residential lot is $400 to $1,200. Dense brush with small trees, on a medium or badly overgrown lot, is $1,200 to $3,500 and up. Site preparation is quoted against the plan rather than off a range. Those are deliberately the same figures as our main land clearing page: which page you landed on shouldn't change what a job costs. Around Georgetown the two things that move a quote most are how far in from the road the work sits and how dense the fencerow has got, so one photo from the gate and one from the growth itself is usually all we need.
Yes, across Scott County, and the county work is a good part of what we do here. We're based in Lexington, sixteen miles down I-75, so getting to Scott County is routine rather than something we have to plan a route around. Give us the address rather than just the town when you send photos: on acreage, whether a truck and trailer can reach the work is one of the four things that moves the price.
Two or three photos and the address is enough: no site visit, no callback to wait on. Tell us whether it's inside the Georgetown city limits, and if there's a date on a notice we'll be straight with you about whether we can hit it.
