Arkansas · Timber buyers & mill directory

Timber buyers & sawmillsin Arkansas

175 facilities across 56 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
175
Counties
56
On the map
79
With a phone
96

96 of these 175 Arkansas 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 Arkansas. 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 Arkansas

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 Arkansas the way a load actually travels - by county. 56 counties carry a listing, Columbia County the most at 12, and 16 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.

Sawmill lumber near me is a different search again - that one wants a mill selling boards, not a mill buying logs. 69 of these 175 Arkansas 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 Arkansas

The mills listed here are the buyers at the end of the line for Arkansas 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 175 facilities across 56 counties, 79 of them on the map above, so you can see what sits within working distance of your ground before anyone quotes you a number.

121 of the 175 Arkansas listings are sawmills, alongside 5 chip mills, 4 pulp & paper mills, 4 shavings mills, and a few other plant types. Tops and small stems are sold as pulpwood, and the 5 chip mills and 4 pulp & paper mills on this page are where that wood is taken. The Arkansas records name what each plant accepts - oak, pine, hickory, ash, and gum among 20 species in all - so the species line on a card tells you whether your stand is what that mill runs. 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.

20 species are named across these Arkansas listings, oak by 59 of them. There is a guide here for white oak, red oak and Southern yellow pine, each one covering grade, form, the defects that cost money and what the wood is normally cut for - which is how you work out whether your stand is what these mills run. Shorter entries on the same page cover ash and sweetgum - what buyers take each for, and the catch.

A mill does not care which side of a state line your county is on, and neither should the search. Tennessee's 320 listings, Mississippi's 124 listings and Texas's 106 listings sit across Arkansas'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.

125 of these 175 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 50 were published without a street address, so everything known about them is already on the card.

Ashley County

3 of 3 facilities

Baxter County

3 of 3 facilities

Benton County

2 of 2 facilities

Bradley County

6 of 6 facilities

Clark County

5 of 5 facilities

Clay County

2 of 2 facilities

Cleburne County

1 of 1 facility

Cleveland County

3 of 3 facilities

Columbia County

12 of 12 facilities

Conway County

6 of 6 facilities

Craighead County

1 of 1 facility

Crawford County

2 of 2 facilities

Cross County

2 of 2 facilities

Dallas County

7 of 7 facilities

Desha County

1 of 1 facility

Drew County

5 of 5 facilities

Franklin County

1 of 1 facility

Fulton County

2 of 2 facilities

Garland County

1 of 1 facility

Grant County

6 of 6 facilities

Greene County

1 of 1 facility

Hempstead County

2 of 2 facilities

Hot Spring County

4 of 4 facilities

Howard County

1 of 1 facility

Independence County

2 of 2 facilities

Izard County

2 of 2 facilities

Jefferson County

5 of 5 facilities

Johnson County

1 of 1 facility

Lawrence County

1 of 1 facility

Lincoln County

2 of 2 facilities

Little River County

5 of 5 facilities

Logan County

2 of 2 facilities

Lonoke County

1 of 1 facility

Madison County

10 of 10 facilities

Marion County

2 of 2 facilities

Monroe County

1 of 1 facility

Montgomery County

1 of 1 facility

Newton County

4 of 4 facilities

Ouachita County

6 of 6 facilities

Perry County

1 of 1 facility

Phillips County

2 of 2 facilities

Pike County

5 of 5 facilities

Polk County

2 of 2 facilities

Pope County

3 of 3 facilities

Prairie County

2 of 2 facilities

Pulaski County

2 of 2 facilities

Saline County

1 of 1 facility

Scott County

3 of 3 facilities

Searcy County

3 of 3 facilities

Sharp County

1 of 1 facility

Stone County

5 of 5 facilities

Union County

10 of 10 facilities

Van Buren County

1 of 1 facility

Washington County

2 of 2 facilities

White County

6 of 6 facilities

Yell County

2 of 2 facilities

Arkansas sources

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

  • 96listings

    Arkansas Forest Industry Directory (Arkansas Forestry Commission)

  • 79listings

    Primary Forest Products Network (Southern Group of State Foresters)

Selling Arkansas 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.