This tree's wood has the second-highest heating value out of all the hickories.  It is commonly used for things like athletic goods, agricultural implements, and dowels. Unlike the Pignut Hickory, this hickory does not share a well-established past or even current, relationship with Native Americans.

Just like other Hickories, it does not have many insects or diseases that try to come after it. While that may be true it does have some things that like to try and come after it, the bark beetle and the pecan weevil, as well as those there is fungus that will burrow and grow into the tree causing it to rot, and eventually die.