Louisiana · Timber buyers & mill directory

Timber buyers & sawmillsin Louisiana

63 facilities across 29 parishes — listed by the state forestry agency and grouped below by parish.

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
63
Parishes
29
On the map
63
With a phone
None

No Louisiana 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 Louisiana. 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 Louisiana

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 Louisiana the way a load actually travels - by parish. 29 parishes carry a listing, Winn Parish the most at 6, and 13 parishes carry exactly one. Start with your own parish 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 Louisiana 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 Louisiana

The mills listed here are the buyers at the end of the line for Louisiana 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 parish 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 63 facilities across 29 parishes, 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.

32 of the 63 Louisiana listings are sawmills, alongside 10 chip mills, 8 pulp & paper mills, 7 veneer & plywood mills, and a few other plant types. Tops and small stems are sold as pulpwood, and the 10 chip mills, 8 pulp & paper mills, and 2 pellet & energy plants on this page are where that wood is taken. The Louisiana 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 Louisiana 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 parish is on, and neither should the search. Arkansas's 175 listings, Mississippi's 124 listings and Texas's 106 listings sit across Louisiana'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 parish

Parishes alphabetical, mills alphabetical inside each parish. Nothing is held back on a second page.

61 of these 63 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 2 were published without a street address, so everything known about them is already on the card.

Allen Parish

3 of 3 facilities

Avoyelles Parish

1 of 1 facility

Beauregard Parish

5 of 5 facilities

Bienville Parish

3 of 3 facilities

Bossier Parish

1 of 1 facility

Calcasieu Parish

1 of 1 facility

De Soto Parish

1 of 1 facility

East Baton Rouge Parish

1 of 1 facility

East Feliciana Parish

1 of 1 facility

Grant Parish

1 of 1 facility

Jackson Parish

2 of 2 facilities

La Salle Parish

3 of 3 facilities

Lincoln Parish

2 of 2 facilities

Livingston Parish

1 of 1 facility

Morehouse Parish

1 of 1 facility

Natchitoches Parish

5 of 5 facilities

Ouachita Parish

2 of 2 facilities

Rapides Parish

2 of 2 facilities

Red River Parish

2 of 2 facilities

Sabine Parish

5 of 5 facilities

St. Helena Parish

1 of 1 facility

St. Landry Parish

2 of 2 facilities

Tangipahoa Parish

1 of 1 facility

Union Parish

2 of 2 facilities

Vernon Parish

2 of 2 facilities

Washington Parish

4 of 4 facilities

West Baton Rouge Parish

1 of 1 facility

West Feliciana Parish

1 of 1 facility

Winn Parish

6 of 6 facilities

Louisiana 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 Louisiana 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.