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I think that location just get a lot of strikes because it is the highest point in its surrounding area. It's topologically inclined to be hit by the strikes. The tree was in the middle of an empty field. So it was ripped barren by strikes, and eventually turned to "glass".

There is a whole catalogue of similar trees.
It is called, I kid you not...
>The Witness Tree Protection Program

It includes singleton survivor witness trees, and the only trees in forests to survive battle. Like the Sycamore in the Battle of Gettysburg.