Little River County · Arkansas mill directory
HESS LUMBER COMPANY
Sawmill
HESS LUMBER COMPANY is listed as a sawmill at 297 LR 157, Foreman, AR 71836, in Little River County. If you came looking for a sawmill near me, this is the Foreman end of that question: the address is published, your own is not, so the haul is yours to measure. The listing is published by Arkansas Forest Industry Directory (Arkansas Forestry Commission); AXE USA republishes it as it stands and adds nothing to it.
Where it is
297 LR 157Foreman, AR 71836
- Town
- Foreman
- County
- Little River County, Arkansas
- ZIP
- 71836
How to reach it
- Phone870-542-7040
- Email[email protected]
What this facility is
Sawmill
A sawmill breaks logs down into boards. Sawlogs are graded on diameter, straightness and defect before they reach the headrig, so this is the outlet that pays for stem quality rather than tonnage - and the slabs, edgings and sawdust it makes are what feed the chip, shavings and mulch trade around it.
What it takes
The record lists 13 materials it accepts: ash, basswood, cherry, cypress, elm, gum, hackberry, hickory, locust, hardwood, oak, sycamore and walnut.
What comes off it
The source names 3 product lines coming off this site: chips, lumber and crossties.
No agency document says whether this facility is buying today, what it pays, the minimum load it will take, or how far it will haul. AXE USA does not check any mill's licence, insurance, ability, or whether it is still in business - this page republishes a public record and nothing more.
Reading this listing
What it means for your timber
The record has this facility taking ash, basswood, cherry, cypress, elm, gum, hackberry, hickory, locust, hardwood, oak, sycamore, and walnut, and species decides more of what a load is worth than the gate it goes through. No full guide is up for ash, basswood and black cherry yet, so the reference list carries a row on each instead: where they grow, what buyers take them for, and the catch that pulls the price down.
It is one of 4 facilities listed in Little River County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Little River County section of the state page has every one of them side by side, and all 175 Arkansas listings run across 56 counties - which is the map that decides whether a load leaves your gate for twenty minutes or two hours.
Anybody searching for a sawmill near me needs more than one gate. If this one will not take your wood, the nearest other listings are AMERICAN CEDAR MILL in Evening Shade, ANTHONY FOREST PRODUCTS COMPANY in Strong and ANTHONY TIMBERLANDS in Bearden. Distances are straight lines between the coordinates the sources published - not road miles, and not a statement that anybody is buying.
None of this says whether the gate is open or what the load would fetch - no agency document records that. A price comes out of a sale run properly: the landowner's guide to selling timber takes the steps in the order they happen, and sealed bidding puts one tract in front of several buyers at once instead of taking the first number offered.
What else is listed around it
4
Listed facilities in Little River County
2
Of them run as a sawmill
175
Listed facilities statewide
Across Little River County the sources list 2 sawmill listings, 1 pulp & paper mill. A facility can be listed under more than one of those, so the numbers overlap rather than adding up.
Where this listing comes from
- Source document
- Arkansas Forest Industry Directory (Arkansas Forestry Commission) (opens in a new tab)
- Edition
- January 2017
- Fetched by AXE USA
- 2026-08-18
Fields are never merged between documents: every line above came from this one record, so a listing from a source that publishes no phone number stays without one.
Other mills in Little River County
Every other listed facility in Little River County, Arkansas.
Nearest Sawmill listings in Arkansas
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for HESS LUMBER COMPANY - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
This listing comes from an agency document. Mills close and move between publications. If you know this one is shut, has moved, or the number is wrong, tell us and we will check it.
Got timber to move in Little River County?
This listing says where HESS LUMBER COMPANY is and what the agency records it as taking. It does not say what it will pay. Put the tract out for sealed bids and let the buyers around Foreman answer that themselves.