Escambia County · Florida mill directory
West Fraser - McDavid
Chip mill · Sawmill
West Fraser - McDavid is listed as a chip mill and a sawmill at 401 Champion Drive, McDavid, FL 32568, in Escambia County. If you came looking for a chip mill near me, this is the McDavid end of that question: the address is published, your own is not, so the haul is yours to measure. The listing is published by Primary Forest Products Network (Southern Group of State Foresters); AXE USA republishes it as it stands and adds nothing to it.
Where it is
401 Champion DriveMcDavid, FL 32568
- Town
- McDavid
- County
- Escambia County, Florida
- ZIP
- 32568
- Published coordinates
- 30.79419, -87.32812
No contact published
Primary Forest Products Network (Southern Group of State Foresters) publishes this facility's location but no phone number, email, or website, and AXE USA does not fill that gap from anywhere else. The agency record linked below is the place to check for a number.
What this facility is
Chip mill
A chip mill has no saw line. Roundwood goes in whole and leaves as clean chips by truck or railcar for a pulp, paper or panel mill, which is why a chip mill takes the small stems, crooked wood and thinnings a grade sawmill turns down.
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
Softwood is the only material the source records this facility as accepting.
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 source goes no further than softwood here, which is a starting point rather than a specification. The species guides take the trees one at a time - what each is cut for, how it is graded, and where the line between pulpwood and sawtimber falls.
It is one of 2 facilities listed in Escambia County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Escambia County section of the state page has every one of them side by side, and all 59 Florida listings run across 31 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 Wilson Lumber Company in Milton, 29 miles away, Rex Lumber - Graceville in Graceville, 108 miles away and Spanish Trail Lumber Company, Inc. in Marianna, 133 miles away. 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
2
Listed facilities in Escambia County
1
Of them run as a chip mill
133mi
Straight line to the nearest other chip mill
59
Listed facilities statewide
Across Escambia County the sources list 1 chip mill, 1 pulp & paper mill, 1 sawmill. 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
- Primary Forest Products Network (Southern Group of State Foresters) (opens in a new tab)
- Edition
- Continuously maintained - the source publishes no edition date
- 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 Escambia County
Every other listed facility in Escambia County, Florida.
Nearest Chip mill listings in Florida
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for West Fraser - McDavid - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
Nearest Sawmill listings in Florida
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for West Fraser - McDavid - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
- Wilson Lumber CompanyMilton, Santa Rosa CountySawmill · Mulch plant · Shavings mill29 mi
- Rex Lumber - GracevilleGraceville, Jackson CountySawmill108 mi
- Spanish Trail Lumber Company, Inc.Marianna, Jackson CountyChip mill · Sawmill133 mi
- Rex Lumber - BristolBristol, Liberty CountySawmill143 mi
- Boatright Timber Service, Inc.Havana, Gadsden CountySawmill175 mi
- Roberts Lumber Company, Inc.Perry, Taylor CountySawmill232 mi
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 Escambia County?
This listing says where West Fraser - McDavid 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 McDavid answer that themselves.