Jackson County · Kentucky mill directory
Melvin Marks Sawmill
Sawmill
Melvin Marks Sawmill is listed as a sawmill at Near Sand Springs, McKee, KY 40447, in Jackson County. If you came looking for a sawmill near me, this is the McKee 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
Near Sand SpringsMcKee, KY 40447
- Town
- McKee
- County
- Jackson County, Kentucky
- ZIP
- 40447
- Published coordinates
- 37.47620, -83.98602
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
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 hardwood and softwood as the material it accepts.
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 hardwood and 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 3 facilities listed in Jackson County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Jackson County section of the state page has every one of them side by side, and all 301 Kentucky listings run across 95 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 Fultz, Lowell in Beattyville, 11 miles away, Harold White Lumber Co., Inc. in Morehead, 11 miles away and McQueen Lumber in Bond, 11 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
3
Listed facilities in Jackson County
3
Of them run as a sawmill
11mi
Straight line to the nearest other sawmill
301
Listed facilities statewide
Across Jackson County the sources list 3 sawmill listings. 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 Jackson County
Every other listed facility in Jackson County, Kentucky.
Nearest Sawmill listings in Kentucky
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for Melvin Marks Sawmill - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
- Fultz, LowellBeattyville, Lee CountySawmill11 mi
- Harold White Lumber Co., Inc.Morehead, Rowan CountySawmill11 mi
- McQueen LumberBond, Jackson CountySawmill11 mi
- Parrett LumberBerea, Madison CountySawmill13 mi
- Three Rivers Hardwood, Inc.Beattyville, Lee CountySawmill14 mi
- Lee County Wood ProductsBeattyville, Lee CountySawmill15 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 Jackson County?
This listing says where Melvin Marks Sawmill 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 McKee answer that themselves.