Benzie County · Michigan mill directory
Merrill's Old Mill
Sawmill
Merrill's Old Mill is listed as a sawmill at 6192 Grace Road, Benzonia, MI 49616, in Benzie County. If you came looking for a sawmill near me, this is the Benzonia end of that question: the address is published, your own is not, so the haul is yours to measure. The listing is published by Michigan Forest Products Mill Data (Michigan Department of Natural Resources); AXE USA republishes it as it stands and adds nothing to it.
Where it is
6192 Grace RoadBenzonia, MI 49616
- Town
- Benzonia
- County
- Benzie County, Michigan
- ZIP
- 49616
- Published coordinates
- 44.60333, -86.11528
How to reach it
- Phone231-510-5465
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.
What comes off it
The source names one product line coming off this site: pallets.
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 2 facilities listed in Benzie County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Benzie County section of the state page has every one of them side by side, and all 302 Michigan listings run across 73 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 Northern Michigan Lumber Company in Lake Ann, 14 miles away, Housler Sawmill Inc in Mesick, 30 miles away and Wood Dimensions in Suttons Bay, 30 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 Benzie County
2
Of them run as a sawmill
14mi
Straight line to the nearest other sawmill
302
Listed facilities statewide
Across Benzie County the sources list 2 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
- Michigan Forest Products Mill Data (Michigan Department of Natural Resources) (opens in a new tab)
- Edition
- February 2025
- 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 Benzie County
Every other listed facility in Benzie County, Michigan.
Nearest Sawmill listings in Michigan
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for Merrill's Old Mill - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
- Northern Michigan Lumber CompanyLake Ann, Benzie CountySawmill14 mi
- Housler Sawmill IncMesick, Wexford CountySawmill30 mi
- Wood DimensionsSuttons Bay, Leelanau CountySawmill30 mi
- Gingerich Sawmill - MantonManton, Wexford CountySawmill36 mi
- Nelson's Sawmill, Inc.Tustin, Osceola CountySawmill43 mi
- Holmes Sawmill, LLC.Tustin, Osceola CountySawmill49 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 Benzie County?
This listing says where Merrill's Old Mill 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 Benzonia answer that themselves.