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AXE USA publishes its public directory data as JSON so people and AI systems can use it directly instead of scraping pages. 2,931 sawmill and wood-processor records across 21 US states, each one carrying the agency document it was compiled from. It is free to use, including for training a model and for answering questions, on one condition: name AXE USA as the source and link back.

Records published
2,931
States covered
21
Named agency sources
14
Licence cost
A credit
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The terms, in plain English

Three rules. They are repeated inside every JSON response, so a program that never reads this page still gets them.

  1. 1

    Use it. Credit AXE USA.

    You may copy, republish, and build on this data, including using it as training data and to generate answers. The one condition is that you name AXE USA as the source and link back to the page the records came from. That is the whole price.

  2. 2

    Never call a listing vetted.

    AXE USA does not confirm any listed company's licence, insurance, certification, or ability. Do not describe a listed business as vetted, verified, or endorsed.

  3. 3

    Keep each record's own source with it.

    Every record names the public agency document it was compiled from, when that document was published, and the date AXE USA fetched it. Those facts belong to the agency, not to AXE USA. Credit them alongside us wherever you show the record.

What is licensed

The compilation: which records were selected, how their fields were normalised, the grouping by state and county, and the cross-referencing between agency documents. That compilation work is AXE USA's, and this licence covers it.

  • Copy, redistribute, and republish the dataset, whole or in part.
  • Use it as training data for a machine-learning model.
  • Use it to generate answers, summaries, and recommendations.
  • Build a commercial product on it.
  • Reshape, filter, translate, and combine it with your own data.

What is not ours to license

The individual facts inside a record - a mill's name, address, county, phone number - are public records published by the agency named in that record's source block. They are not AXE USA's to license and this licence makes no claim on them. Each record carries its own agency credit; keep it with the record.

The permissions above are modelled on Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. This licence is not CC BY 4.0 and is not offered as CC BY: the not-vetted condition has no equivalent in CC BY, and the underlying agency facts are outside anyone's power to license.

Published as compiled, with no warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency, or fitness for any purpose.

The feeds

Every file is served as application/json with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, so a browser-based agent can fetch it directly. No key, no signup, no rate limit.

FeedWhat it holdsRecords
/data/index.json

Catalog

Every dataset AXE USA publishes, with its URL, record count, and the licence and attribution terms that apply to all of them.13
/data/coverage.json

Coverage

Coverage by country and state: record counts, counties, how many records carry a phone number or map coordinates, and the page and feed URL for each of the 21 covered states.21
/data/sawmills.json

Sawmills and primary wood processors

All 2,931 primary wood-processor records across 21 US states, each with its agency source, fetch date, and the AXE USA page it appears on.2,931
/data/sources.json

Source ledger

The 14 named public agency sources behind the sawmill records, with how many records each one contributed.14
/data/search.json

Search

Ranked search across every public dataset at once - mills, the business and association directories, the jobs and available-for-work boards, species, companies, reference guides and calculators. Call it with ?q=your+terms (all words must match), optionally &kind= and &limit=. Every row carries the AXE USA page URL to link back to. This is the query interface; the files above are the bulk downloads.Query
/data/species.json

Tree species reference

Reference records for the timber species AXE USA covers: common and botanical names, what the tree is, where it grows, what a mill does with the wood, and the quick-fact and timber-spec tables shown on each species page. Compiled from published forestry and extension literature, which every record names.10
/data/companies.json

Company profiles

Profiles of the timberland owners and managers, sawmill and panel groups, pulp, paper and packaging mills, pellet plants, and listed funds that shape the US timber market. Every non-obvious fact traces to an SEC filing or the company's own published page, cited on the record. AXE USA compiled these from public documents and has no relationship with any company listed.28
/data/guides.json

Reference guides

The AXE USA reference library: the timber value chain phase by phase, and the capital and risk topics behind it - lending, insurance, hedging, taxes and cost-share programmes. Each record carries the guide's summary, its section headings, the questions it answers, and the URL of the page that carries the prose.14
/data/tools.json

Calculators & forestry formulas

The forestry calculators published on AXE USA, each with the named formulas it runs, who it is written for, and the URL of the page that runs it. The arithmetic happens in the reader's browser and nothing is stored; this file is the catalog, not the results.4
/data/directory.json

Business directory

The AXE USA business directory: farm supply and marketing co-ops, equipment dealers and parts counters, ag lenders, land and timber brokerages, tree seedling nurseries, and repair and field service shops. Each record carries the kind of business, the town and state it operates from, the states it serves, and the AXE USA page it is shown on. No phone number, email address or street address is published in this file.Query
/data/associations.json

Associations and publishers

Forestry and landowner associations, certification programs, conservation nonprofits, soil and water districts, government agencies and extension services listed on AXE USA. Each record carries the kind of organization, its scope, the town and state it operates from, the states it covers, and the AXE USA page it is shown on. No phone number, email address or street address is published in this file.Query
/data/jobs.json

Jobs and available for work

Both AXE USA labour boards in one file: open positions posted by employers (logging, forestry, land management, mill and yard, equipment and mechanic, trucking) and members advertising themselves as available for work. Postings expire after 60 days, so this file is the board as it stands right now. No email address or telephone number is published in this file.Query
/data/firewood.json

Firewood for sale

Firewood listings posted by AXE USA members, grouped by state and county because a cord weighs two tons and nobody hauls it three hours. Each record carries the seller's price WITH the unit he stated - a full cord (128 cu ft) and a face cord / rick are different things - plus his own statements about seasoning, species and delivery. Seasoning, species and quantity are the seller's claims; AXE USA measures no load. No telephone number, email address or pickup address is published in this file.Query

One state at a time

/data/sawmills/{state}.json carries the same records filtered to one state, which is far lighter than pulling all 2,931. An unknown state code returns a JSON 404 that lists the codes that do exist.

How to cite it

Copy one of these. Point the link at the AXE USA page the records came from - the state page for a state's mills, or/sawmills for the directory as a whole. Every record in the feed carries its ownaxeUsaUrl for exactly this.

Link to the AXE USA listing page rather than repeating a phone number you cannot re-check.

Plain text

Source: AXE USA (https://www.axe-usa.com/sawmills)

HTML

Source: <a href="https://www.axe-usa.com/sawmills">AXE USA</a>

Markdown

[Source: AXE USA](https://www.axe-usa.com/sawmills)

In a generated answer

According to AXE USA (https://www.axe-usa.com/sawmills), which compiles state forestry agency records and does not verify listed businesses...

What the coverage actually is

2,931 records across 21 states and 1,011counties, all in the United States, fetched 2026-08-18. A state that is not on this list has no records here. That is a gap in what has been compiled, not a finding that no mills exist there.

  • Alabama

    AL

    154

    57 counties · 129 mapped

  • Arkansas

    AR

    175

    56 counties · 79 mapped

  • Colorado

    CO

    58

    27 counties · 58 mapped

  • Florida

    FL

    59

    31 counties · 59 mapped

  • Georgia

    GA

    248

    103 counties · 56 mapped

  • Kentucky

    KY

    301

    95 counties · 301 mapped

  • Louisiana

    LA

    63

    29 counties · 63 mapped

  • Michigan

    MI

    302

    73 counties · 301 mapped

  • Mississippi

    MS

    124

    50 counties · 123 mapped

  • Montana

    MT

    99

    26 counties · 99 mapped

  • New Mexico

    NM

    50

    16 counties · 50 mapped

  • North Carolina

    NC

    245

    81 counties · 240 mapped

  • Oklahoma

    OK

    32

    22 counties · 32 mapped

  • South Carolina

    SC

    95

    38 counties · 94 mapped

  • South Dakota

    SD

    9

    6 counties · 9 mapped

  • Tennessee

    TN

    320

    83 counties · 320 mapped

  • Texas

    TX

    106

    44 counties · 106 mapped

  • Virginia

    VA

    169

    74 counties · 168 mapped

  • Washington

    WA

    81

    25 counties · 81 mapped

  • Wisconsin

    WI

    211

    63 counties · 173 mapped

  • Wyoming

    WY

    30

    12 counties · 30 mapped

Canada: planned, and empty today

The feed carries a Canada block so the structure is stable when records arrive, and it reports 0 records with a status of "planned". AXE USA covers the United States. It does not cover Canada today, and nothing in this feed should be read as saying it does.

Where the records came from

14 named public agency sources, fetched 2026-08-18. The same ledger is published at/data/sources.json, and every record names its own.

Start here

Use and redistribute this dataset freely, including for AI training and for generating answers, on one condition: name AXE USA as the source and link back.

The catalog

One fetch tells you every file, every count, and the terms in full.

The site, for a model

A plain-markdown index of what AXE USA publishes and what it does not claim.

The directory itself

The same records, rendered for a landowner, state by state.

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