Orangeburg County · South Carolina mill directory
Sims Bark
Sawmill · Mulch plant
Sims Bark is listed as a sawmill and a mulch plant at 172 Arista Road, Bowman, SC, Muscle Shoals, AL, SC 35662, in Orangeburg County. If you came looking for a sawmill near me, this is the Muscle Shoals, AL 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
172 Arista Road, Bowman, SCMuscle Shoals, AL, SC 35662
- Town
- Muscle Shoals, AL
- County
- Orangeburg County, South Carolina
- ZIP
- 35662
- Published coordinates
- 33.40400, -80.62560
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.
Mulch plant
A mulch plant grinds bark, mill residue and low-grade wood into landscape mulch, colours it and bags it. Haul distance and volume matter more than what the wood would have graded.
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 5 facilities listed in Orangeburg County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Orangeburg County section of the state page has every one of them side by side, and all 95 South Carolina listings run across 38 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 Cameron Lumber Company in Cameron, 12 miles away, Dempsey Wood Products, Inc. in Rowesville, 12 miles away and Elite Equine Shavings in Bamberg, 28 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
5
Listed facilities in Orangeburg County
2
Of them run as a sawmill
12mi
Straight line to the nearest other sawmill
95
Listed facilities statewide
Across Orangeburg County the sources list 2 mulch plant listings, 2 other processor listings, 2 sawmill listings, 1 chip mill. 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 Orangeburg County
Every other listed facility in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
Nearest Sawmill listings in South Carolina
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for Sims Bark - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
- Cameron Lumber CompanyCameron, Calhoun CountySawmill12 mi
- Warren and Griffin Lumber CompanyWilliams, Colleton CountySawmill28 mi
- Ashley River Lumber CompanyRidgeville, Dorchester CountySawmill29 mi
- Denmark Lumber CompanyDenmark, Bamberg CountySawmill31 mi
- Edwards Wood Products Inc.Manning, Clarendon CountyMulch plant · Shavings mill · Sawmill33 mi
- Douglas SawmillSpringfield, Orangeburg CountySawmill36 mi
Nearest Mulch plant listings in South Carolina
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for Sims Bark - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
- Dempsey Wood Products, Inc.Rowesville, Orangeburg CountyShavings mill · Mulch plant · Other processor12 mi
- Elite Equine ShavingsBamberg, Bamberg CountyShavings mill · Mulch plant28 mi
- Oldcastle Lawn & GardenWalterboro, Colleton CountyMulch plant · Shavings mill32 mi
- Edwards Wood Products Inc.Manning, Clarendon CountyMulch plant · Shavings mill · Sawmill33 mi
- 378 Recycling Center LLCLexington, Lexington CountyMulch plant · Shavings mill53 mi
- South Carolina Shavings Providers LLCAiken, Aiken CountyMulch plant · Shavings mill62 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 Orangeburg County?
This listing says where Sims Bark 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 Muscle Shoals, AL answer that themselves.