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Timber buyers & sawmillsin Kentucky

301 facilities across 95 counties — listed by the state forestry agency 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
301
Counties
95
On the map
301
With a phone
None

No Kentucky source in this dataset publishes a phone number, so none is shown. Each listing links to the agency record it came from. These counts are what the agencies published — not a census of every mill in Kentucky. 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 Kentucky

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 Kentucky the way a load actually travels - by county. 95 counties carry a listing, Hart County the most at 11, and 27 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. No Kentucky source in this dataset names lumber as a product line, so whether any of these plants will sell you sawn stock is a question for the mill itself rather than something these records answer. What they do carry is what each plant takes in, which is the half a landowner needs: the landowner's guide to selling timber is the other half.

For landowners

Selling timber in Kentucky

The mills listed here are the buyers at the end of the line for Kentucky 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 301 facilities across 95 counties, all of them on the map above, so you can see what sits within working distance of your ground before anyone quotes you a number.

232 of the 301 Kentucky listings are sawmills, alongside 31 other processors, 6 shavings mills, 3 chip mills, and a few other plant types. Tops and small stems are sold as pulpwood, and the 3 chip mills and 1 pulp & paper mill on this page are where that wood is taken. The Kentucky 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 Kentucky 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 and Virginia's 169 listings sit across Kentucky'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.

295 of these 301 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 6 were published without a street address, so everything known about them is already on the card.

Adair County

5 of 5 facilities

Allen County

3 of 3 facilities

Anderson County

1 of 1 facility

Ballard County

2 of 2 facilities

Barren County

7 of 7 facilities

Bath County

1 of 1 facility

Bell County

1 of 1 facility

Boyd County

2 of 2 facilities

Boyle County

1 of 1 facility

Bracken County

1 of 1 facility

Breathitt County

2 of 2 facilities

Breckinridge County

4 of 4 facilities

Bullitt County

3 of 3 facilities

Butler County

2 of 2 facilities

Caldwell County

4 of 4 facilities

Carlisle County

3 of 3 facilities

Carroll County

1 of 1 facility

Carter County

4 of 4 facilities

Casey County

9 of 9 facilities

Christian County

1 of 1 facility

Clark County

2 of 2 facilities

Clay County

2 of 2 facilities

Clinton County

5 of 5 facilities

Crittenden County

2 of 2 facilities

Cumberland County

5 of 5 facilities

Daviess County

3 of 3 facilities

Edmonson County

2 of 2 facilities

Elliott County

1 of 1 facility

Estill County

3 of 3 facilities

Fleming County

3 of 3 facilities

Floyd County

1 of 1 facility

Fulton County

1 of 1 facility

Garrard County

1 of 1 facility

Graves County

4 of 4 facilities

Grayson County

6 of 6 facilities

Green County

6 of 6 facilities

Greenup County

7 of 7 facilities

Hancock County

1 of 1 facility

Hardin County

7 of 7 facilities

Harlan County

1 of 1 facility

Harrison County

2 of 2 facilities

Hart County

11 of 11 facilities

Henry County

2 of 2 facilities

Hopkins County

3 of 3 facilities

Jackson County

3 of 3 facilities

Jefferson County

2 of 2 facilities

Johnson County

1 of 1 facility

Knox County

4 of 4 facilities

Larue County

1 of 1 facility

Laurel County

11 of 11 facilities

Lawrence County

1 of 1 facility

Lee County

5 of 5 facilities

Leslie County

1 of 1 facility

Letcher County

2 of 2 facilities

Lewis County

6 of 6 facilities

Lincoln County

3 of 3 facilities

Livingston County

2 of 2 facilities

Logan County

3 of 3 facilities

Lyon County

1 of 1 facility

Madison County

2 of 2 facilities

Marion County

3 of 3 facilities

Marshall County

2 of 2 facilities

Martin County

1 of 1 facility

Mason County

1 of 1 facility

McCreary County

3 of 3 facilities

Mclean County

1 of 1 facility

McLean County

1 of 1 facility

Meade County

3 of 3 facilities

Menifee County

2 of 2 facilities

Metcalfe County

6 of 6 facilities

Monroe County

6 of 6 facilities

Montgomery County

1 of 1 facility

Morgan County

2 of 2 facilities

Muhlenberg County

6 of 6 facilities

Nelson County

3 of 3 facilities

Ohio County

7 of 7 facilities

Owsley County

2 of 2 facilities

Pendleton County

2 of 2 facilities

Perry County

2 of 2 facilities

Pike County

4 of 4 facilities

Powell County

2 of 2 facilities

Pulaski County

7 of 7 facilities

Rowan County

5 of 5 facilities

Scott County

1 of 1 facility

Shelby County

1 of 1 facility

Spencer County

1 of 1 facility

Taylor County

8 of 8 facilities

Todd County

3 of 3 facilities

Trigg County

4 of 4 facilities

Trimble County

3 of 3 facilities

Warren County

3 of 3 facilities

Wayne County

8 of 8 facilities

Webster County

1 of 1 facility

Whitley County

4 of 4 facilities

Wolfe County

6 of 6 facilities

Kentucky sources

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

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Selling Kentucky 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.

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