Pasture & Field Reclamation
The job Madison County calls us for most.
Ground that stopped being grazed and went to brush. Priced by the acre, and the tier most Richmond jobs land in.
Pasture & field reclamationLand Clearing in Richmond, KY
Overgrown lots, reclaimed pasture, fence lines and small trees, cleared and hauled off, not mulched and left on your ground. Richmond is the furthest of our regular markets, which is exactly why this page is aimed at lot-and-up work.
- Cleared material leaves the property: we run our own trucks and dumpsters
- Ten inches is Richmond’s limit too, under a different rulebook; see below
- Acreage and lot work rather than small tidy-ups, and we will say so if yours is too small
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Ten inches here too. It is not Fayette’s ten inches.
This is the one that catches people out, because the headline number matches and everything under it does not. If you read about Lexington’s rule and assumed the rest carried, it did not.
10″
Maximum weed, grass and vegetation height on a Richmond property, the same number as Fayette, under an entirely different ordinance
City of Richmond, Code of Ordinances, Ch. 94 § 94.01, nuisances
The number is the same. Richmond’s Chapter 94 on nuisances makes it a nuisance to keep “weeds, grass, or other vegetation on premises which is greater than ten inches in height.” Ten inches, as in Fayette.
The exemptions are not. Richmond’s section excepts ornamental plantings, landscaping, and fruit and vegetable gardens. Fayette’s ordinance carves out something quite different: land over an acre known to be non-buildable needs only an eight-foot buffer where it meets developed property, agricultural land is exempt, and deliberate native plantings are permitted if maintained. Those Fayette exemptions are the ones acreage owners rely on, and they are Fayette’s, not Richmond’s.
It is also enforced through a different route. Richmond’s Codes Enforcement oversees compliance with city ordinances and the International Property Maintenance Code, from 239 W. Main Street on (859) 625-6404. Fayette runs its weed rule through a code enforcement board under the state’s code enforcement statutes. Same figure, different chapter, different process.
And outside the city limits it is a different question again. Unincorporated Madison County is county ground, where the state’s nuisance abatement statute applies, including its provision that the section is not enforced by a county government on premises in an unincorporated part of the county assessed as agricultural land for tax purposes. On acreage, how your parcel is assessed matters more than how tall the grass is.
This is a plain-English summary, not legal advice, and codes change. Richmond Codes Enforcement on (859) 625-6404 is the authority inside the city, and the county is the authority outside it. If you are not sure which side of the line your ground is on, send the address and we will tell you what we can see. Send photos and ask
Land clearing work we do across Madison County
Every job here ends the same way: the material on a truck and off your property. See the full land clearing service
Overgrown Lot Clearing
The one that arrives with a letter.
Vacant lots, rentals between tenants and neglected parcels. Inside the city this is what the ten-inch rule drives.
Overgrown lot clearing, in detail
Right-of-Way Clearing
Clearing a line, not an area.
Drives, fence lines and access routes. On Madison County acreage this is very often the whole job.
Right-of-way clearing
Site Preparation
Clearing to a plan.
Pads, drives and outbuilding sites made workable. Quoted against the plan rather than off a rate card.
Site preparation
Tree Removal & Stump Grinding
Under about 20 feet. Taller is a tree service.
Volunteers and scrub along old fence lines, and the stumps they leave behind.
Tree removal & stump grindingRichmond is a bigger-job market, and we price it that way
Madison County is the furthest we regularly travel and the most rural of the four markets we build a page like this for. Both facts point the same way.
What does not work here
A small job a long way out
A quarter-acre corner at this distance costs us most of a day and costs you the same as one round the corner in Lexington. The maths does not work for either of us, and we would rather say so when you ask than after you have taken a morning off.
The city also runs no brush or bulk collection at all, which we set out on the Richmond services page, so whoever cuts it here has to haul it, and that is priced in rather than assumed away.
What works very well
Acreage, pasture and full lots
On a day’s work or more the drive is a small share of the job and the distance barely moves the number. Reclaimed pasture, fence lines, full lot clears and site work are what Madison County calls us for, and they are what we are set up for here.
It is also why pasture reclamation leads the list above rather than sitting fifth, as it does on the pages for towns closer in.
Land clearing prices in Richmond
The same published ranges as the main land clearing service. A page about one city should not quote you a different number from the page about the service. You get a firm figure before anything starts.
Small residential lot
$400 to $1,200
Light brush and undergrowth. A back corner, a side yard, a fence line that’s got away from you.
Medium or overgrown lot
$1,200 to $3,500+
Dense brush and small trees. A full honeysuckle thicket, or ground that hasn’t been touched in years.
Full site preparation
$800 to $3,500+
Clearing plus rough grading, worked to your plan rather than to a tidy-up.
- Property size
- The single biggest driver, and the one you already know.
- Vegetation density
- Waist-high weeds and a honeysuckle thicket are different jobs on the same square footage.
- Accessibility
- Whether a truck and trailer can get to the work, or it’s carried out by hand.
- Haul-off
- Priced into the quote rather than added afterwards.
Land clearing jobs around Richmond
PLACEHOLDER: three real Madison 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.
Clearing ground across Madison County
CROWN’s own published list of the parts of Richmond and Madison County we work most often.
- Downtown Richmond
- Eastern Kentucky University area
- Tates Creek
- Kit Carson
- Irvine Road
- Barnes Mill
- Big Hill Avenue
Madison County ZIP codes40475 · 40476
Outside Madison County? We clear land across Central Kentucky: Lexington, Georgetown, Nicholasville, Frankfort, Winchester, Versailles and Paris. The rule described above is this city’s own; every county in our area sets its own and the figures genuinely differ.
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Questions we get from Madison County
If yours isn’t here, call: we’d rather answer it before you book than after.
Got a notice with a date on it?
Send the photos with the address and the date. Whether it is workable is the first thing we come back on, not the last.
(859) 213-6077How tall can grass and weeds legally be in Richmond?
Ten inches. Chapter 94 of the city code makes weeds, grass or other vegetation greater than ten inches in height a nuisance, excepting ornamental plantings, landscaping and fruit and vegetable gardens. It is the same figure as Lexington-Fayette but a different ordinance with different exemptions, so do not carry one county’s rule across to the other. Richmond Codes Enforcement is on (859) 625-6404.
My ground is outside the city limits. Does the same rule apply?
No. Outside the city you are on county ground and it is a different regime. Kentucky’s nuisance abatement statute governs there, and it includes a provision that its terms are not enforced by a county government on premises in an unincorporated portion of the county that is assessed as agricultural land for tax purposes. For a lot of Madison County acreage, how the parcel is assessed matters more than the height of anything on it. Check the assessment before you assume either way.
Is my job too small for you to come to Richmond?
Sometimes, and we would rather tell you now. Richmond is the furthest of our regular markets, so on a small tidy-up the drive is most of what you would be paying for. Full lots, pasture, fence lines and site work all price sensibly at this distance because the travel is a small share of a full day. Send the address and the acreage and you will get a straight yes or no rather than a quote we then wriggle out of.
Will the honeysuckle grow back after you clear it?
Yes, unless the stumps are treated. It resprouts from the stump, so cutting alone does not kill it: lasting control means repeated cutting over several years or a herbicide treatment on the cut stumps. We cut, load and haul; we do not spray. The Madison County Extension office is the right place to ask what goes on the stumps, and the job is far cheaper once the thicket is already down.
Do you haul it away, or mulch it in place?
We haul it away, and here that matters more than anywhere else we work. Mulching grinds the brush and leaves the chips on your ground; on a field you intend to graze or work, that is material you then have to deal with. Richmond also has no municipal brush collection to fall back on, so the haul-off is not a nicety: it is the difference between a finished job and a pile.
What does land clearing cost in Richmond?
A small residential lot with light brush and undergrowth runs $400 to $1,200, a medium or overgrown lot $1,200 to $3,500 and up, and full site preparation is quoted on the plan. Acreage reclamation is priced separately by the acre. These are the same figures as our main land clearing page: we do not price a job differently because of which page you landed on. What moves the number is property size, vegetation density, terrain and access.
Get a price on clearing your Madison County ground
Send the address, the rough acreage and two or three photos: one from the road and one from inside the growth. On acreage, whether a loaded truck can get back out matters as much as what is on it.
- Quotes guaranteed within 2 hours, 8am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday
- Free and no obligation. You only pay for completed work
- Clearing several properties? Ask about trade terms