Silver maple (Acer saccharinum L.) is a fast-growing, flood-tolerant species common in bottomland forests of eastern North America. Tree-ring research on silver maple is limited due to the species’ relatively short lifespan and reputation for indistinct rings. The wood anatomy of silver maple is characterized by a diffuse-porous ring structure with small, uniformly distributed vessels and an often faint terminal parenchyma (wood tissue at the edge of a growth ring). In this dataset, we identified and catalogued wood anatomical anomalies and developed event year chronologies for one of our floodplain study sites—Whitman Dam. The resulting dataset is a .csv file containing event chronologies spanning the years 1924 to 2020 for the four types of wood anatomical anomalies we examined: false rings, white rings, vessel gap, and pith fleck. Event counts and frequencies were calculated based on the number of anatomical anomalies and the total number of specimens in a given year. Increment cores were crossdated prior to identification of anatomical anomalies. The ring-width data associated with this study is available at: https://doi.org/10.25921/s340-r337.
