Alabama · Timber buyers & mill directory

Timber buyers & sawmillsin Alabama

154 facilities across 57 counties — listed by state forestry agencies and grouped below by county.

Mills are where timber ends up, which makes them the reason anybody bids on a standing tract. Some buy standing timber themselves; most buy it delivered by the loggers and dealers who cut it. Either way the haul from your gate to a mill gate is a real part of what the wood is worth.

Facilities
154
Counties
57
On the map
129
With a phone
25

25 of these 154 Alabama listings carry a phone number, because only one of the source documents publishes one - no number is borrowed from anywhere else. These counts are what the agencies published — not a census of every mill in Alabama. AXE USA does not check any mill's licence, insurance, ability, or whether it is still in business.

Where they sit

Coordinates published by the source agency. Haul distance is the whole economics of a small tract, so start here and read the listing second.

Sawmills near me

“Sawmill near me” in Alabama

A search for a sawmill near me returns a list, not a map of your own ground: nothing on this page knows where you are standing, and a directory that guessed would be inventing the one fact that decides a haul. What it can do is order Alabama the way a load actually travels - by county. 57 counties carry a listing, Clarke County the most at 12, and 23 counties carry exactly one. Start with your own county in the list below and read outward from it: the haul out of your gate is the part of a timber cheque you can still change. The 2 listings whose source published no county sit in a group at the foot of the same list.

Sawmill lumber near me is a different search again - that one wants a mill selling boards, not a mill buying logs. 10 of these 154 Alabama listings name lumber as a product line on the agency record, so those are the ones worth a call for sawn stock - no source says whether a plant sells retail, in what dimensions, or in what quantity. Selling standing timber instead? the landowner's guide to selling timber takes the sale in the order it happens, and sealed bidding puts one tract in front of several buyers at once.

For landowners

Selling timber in Alabama

The mills listed here are the buyers at the end of the line for Alabama wood. A landowner rarely sells straight to one: a mill buys wood delivered to its gate, and getting trees there takes a logging crew, so the offer in front of you normally comes from a logger, a timber dealer, or a consulting forester selling on your behalf. Which mills sit within reach of your county is what decides who those bidders are and what they can afford to pay.

Haul distance is why a state mill list is worth anything to a seller. Trucking comes out of the same load the timber does, so a tract twenty minutes from a mill is worth more than the identical tract two hours away - same trees, different cheque. This page carries 154 facilities across 57 counties, 129 of them on the map above, so you can see what sits within working distance of your ground before anyone quotes you a number.

90 of the 154 Alabama listings are sawmills, alongside 17 chip mills, 16 pulp & paper mills, 13 post & pole plants, and a few other plant types. Tops and small stems are sold as pulpwood, and the 17 chip mills, 16 pulp & paper mills, and 2 pellet & energy plants on this page are where that wood is taken. The Alabama sources go no further than hardwood and softwood, so read the species line as a starting point rather than a specification. A stand is usually worth sorting into products - pulpwood, chip-n-saw, sawtimber, and veneer where the logs justify it - rather than selling the lot as one thing, and the mill type and species lines on every card below are where working that out starts.

Whoever ends up cutting it, run a process instead of taking the first offer. Hire a consulting forester who works for you, have the timber cruised and marked so every buyer is bidding on the same defined lot, then take sealed bids opened on a stated date. One unsolicited offer is a price, not the price. The landowner's guide walks the whole sale in the order it happens, and sealed bidding is how you put one tract in front of several buyers at once.

The Alabama sources do not separate the species these plants take past hardwood and softwood, so the species line on a card is a hint rather than a specification. The species guides are where that gets settled: what each tree is cut for, how it is graded, and which ones carry a premium worth marking a stand for.

A mill does not care which side of a state line your county is on, and neither should the search. Tennessee's 320 listings, Georgia's 248 listings and Mississippi's 124 listings sit across Alabama's own borders, and the state-by-state index carries every state covered so far. If your ground is within a couple of hours of a line, read both.

Every listing, by county

Counties alphabetical, mills alphabetical inside each county. Nothing is held back on a second page.

17 of these 154 listings have a page of their own - click a mill's name for its address, what it takes, and the mills nearest to it. The other 137 were published without a street address, so everything known about them is already on the card.

Autauga County

1 of 1 facility

Baldwin County

3 of 3 facilities

Barbour County

3 of 3 facilities

Bibb County

6 of 6 facilities

Blount County

1 of 1 facility

Butler County

2 of 2 facilities

Calhoun County

1 of 1 facility

Chambers County

1 of 1 facility

Chilton County

5 of 5 facilities

Choctaw County

5 of 5 facilities

Clarke County

12 of 12 facilities

Clay County

2 of 2 facilities

Coffee County

2 of 2 facilities

Colbert County

1 of 1 facility

Conecuh County

1 of 1 facility

Coosa County

1 of 1 facility

Covington County

1 of 1 facility

Crenshaw County

1 of 1 facility

Cullman County

3 of 3 facilities

Dallas County

2 of 2 facilities

Dekalb County

6 of 6 facilities

DeKalb County

1 of 1 facility

Escambia County

5 of 5 facilities

Etowah County

1 of 1 facility

Fayette County

3 of 3 facilities

Geneva County

1 of 1 facility

Greene County

2 of 2 facilities

Hale County

2 of 2 facilities

Henry County

1 of 1 facility

Jackson County

5 of 5 facilities

Lamar County

1 of 1 facility

Lauderdale County

2 of 2 facilities

Lawrence County

1 of 1 facility

Lee County

3 of 3 facilities

Limestone County

1 of 1 facility

Macon County

1 of 1 facility

Madison County

3 of 3 facilities

Marengo County

6 of 6 facilities

Marion County

2 of 2 facilities

Marshall County

1 of 1 facility

Mobile County

1 of 1 facility

Monroe County

5 of 5 facilities

Montgomery County

3 of 3 facilities

Morgan County

1 of 1 facility

Pickens County

9 of 9 facilities

Pike County

2 of 2 facilities

Randolph County

1 of 1 facility

Russell County

4 of 4 facilities

Shelby County

1 of 1 facility

Sumter County

2 of 2 facilities

Talladega County

2 of 2 facilities

Tallapoosa County

1 of 1 facility

Tuscaloosa County

5 of 5 facilities

Walker County

2 of 2 facilities

Washington County

4 of 4 facilities

Wilcox County

3 of 3 facilities

Winston County

4 of 4 facilities

County not listed

2 of 2 facilities

Alabama sources

Fetched 2026-08-18. Fields are never merged between documents, so a listing from a source with no phone number stays without one.

  • 129listings

    Primary Forest Products Network (Southern Group of State Foresters)

  • 25listings

    Alabama Primary Forest Industry Listing (Alabama Forestry Commission)

Selling Alabama timber?

No agency document says whether any of these mills is buying, what it pays, or how far it will haul. Put the tract out for sealed bids and let buyers answer that themselves.