Looking closer, the bark does look more like gray birch than paper birch.

I was leaning the same way Squash...I'm pretty sure that was where Warrior was going with not enough to go on..

Little to none bark exfoliations, and black triangular patches below branch insertions, Grey Birch.

Or as my Dendrology professor put it "Hairy Armpits!"

definately not grey birch

It's a cactus

Paper Birch would be in it's native range have that bark and common for multi trunk

or a Grey birch opposite side of the country form native range but it's a landscape tree so no telling it is also common in multi trunk

the leaf would be the deciding factor in a visual ID

paper more rounded and grey more triangulate and pointed

They are everywhere up here…..I start my camp fires with birch bark….lights when wet

Yep same here

Just for the sake of discussion, more pics of other trees and leaves.
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looks like a common birch tree to me

White or grey?

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These trees are all planted in a row behind a motel.

I have two in my yard that I started as seedlings. The bark peels off and is great for starting fires. I'd have to say mine are paper birch trees.

Well, those leaves do not look like they came from a grey birch...

I think you have a mix there

the bark of your first post looks like a paper birch

the bark of your last picture in post Post7498297 looks like river birch the top leaf in that post looks like paper birch while the next leave down looks river birch

now can you take a picture of the 2 leaves with a size reference ?

paper birch leaves should be 2-5 inches long while river birch 1.5-3 inches long so even some overlap there

I guess this could be a a good example of how you control what is shown leads people in different directions until the whole picture is seen

I agree, but it looks like photos of trees are from different trees ? Grey Birch leaves are triangular.

It does look like two different trees maybe. A couple have old leaves hanging on...the others are barren of leaves.