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Timber buyers & sawmillsin Tennessee

320 facilities across 83 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
320
Counties
83
On the map
320
With a phone
None

No Tennessee 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 Tennessee. 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 Tennessee

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 Tennessee the way a load actually travels - by county. 83 counties carry a listing, Lawrence County the most at 22, and 22 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. The 6 listings whose source published no county sit in a group at the foot of the same list.

Sawmill lumber near me is a different search again - that one wants a mill selling boards, not a mill buying logs. No Tennessee 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 Tennessee

The mills listed here are the buyers at the end of the line for Tennessee 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 320 facilities across 83 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.

264 of the 320 Tennessee listings are sawmills, alongside 50 other processors, 5 pulp & paper mills, and 1 log home plant. Tops and small stems are sold as pulpwood, and the 5 pulp & paper mills on this page are where that wood is taken. The Tennessee 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 Tennessee 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. Kentucky's 301 listings, Georgia's 248 listings and North Carolina's 245 listings sit across Tennessee'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.

317 of these 320 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 3 were published without a street address, so everything known about them is already on the card.

Anderson County

2 of 2 facilities

Bedford County

1 of 1 facility

Benton County

2 of 2 facilities

Bledsoe County

2 of 2 facilities

Blount County

2 of 2 facilities

Campbell County

4 of 4 facilities

Cannon County

7 of 7 facilities

Carroll County

6 of 6 facilities

Carter County

4 of 4 facilities

Cheatham County

4 of 4 facilities

Chester County

1 of 1 facility

Claiborne County

3 of 3 facilities

Clay County

3 of 3 facilities

Cocke County

8 of 8 facilities

Coffee County

5 of 5 facilities

Cumberland County

1 of 1 facility

Decatur County

7 of 7 facilities

DeKalb County

1 of 1 facility

Dickson County

8 of 8 facilities

Fayette County

2 of 2 facilities

Fentress County

4 of 4 facilities

Franklin County

2 of 2 facilities

Giles County

6 of 6 facilities

GILES County

1 of 1 facility

Grainger County

3 of 3 facilities

Greene County

4 of 4 facilities

Grundy County

7 of 7 facilities

Hamblen County

2 of 2 facilities

Hancock County

2 of 2 facilities

Hardeman County

8 of 8 facilities

Hardin County

8 of 8 facilities

Hawkins County

1 of 1 facility

Haywood County

1 of 1 facility

Henderson County

3 of 3 facilities

Henry County

8 of 8 facilities

Hickman County

2 of 2 facilities

Houston County

4 of 4 facilities

Humphreys County

6 of 6 facilities

Jackson County

1 of 1 facility

Jefferson County

1 of 1 facility

Johnson County

3 of 3 facilities

Knox County

1 of 1 facility

Lawrence County

22 of 22 facilities

Lewis County

3 of 3 facilities

Lincoln County

6 of 6 facilities

Loudon County

1 of 1 facility

Macon County

8 of 8 facilities

Madison County

4 of 4 facilities

Marion County

2 of 2 facilities

Marshall County

1 of 1 facility

Maury County

1 of 1 facility

McMinn County

5 of 5 facilities

McNairy County

7 of 7 facilities

Meigs County

1 of 1 facility

Monroe County

5 of 5 facilities

Montgomery County

1 of 1 facility

Moore County

2 of 2 facilities

Morgan County

4 of 4 facilities

Obion County

3 of 3 facilities

Overton County

9 of 9 facilities

Perry County

7 of 7 facilities

Pickett County

1 of 1 facility

Polk County

1 of 1 facility

Putnam County

4 of 4 facilities

Roane County

1 of 1 facility

Robertson County

1 of 1 facility

Rutherford County

2 of 2 facilities

Scott County

4 of 4 facilities

Sevier County

1 of 1 facility

Smith County

2 of 2 facilities

Stewart County

4 of 4 facilities

Sullivan County

8 of 8 facilities

Sumner County

2 of 2 facilities

Tn_Claiborne County

1 of 1 facility

Unicoi County

5 of 5 facilities

Van Buren County

3 of 3 facilities

Warren County

5 of 5 facilities

Washington County

4 of 4 facilities

Wayne County

8 of 8 facilities

Weakley County

4 of 4 facilities

White County

7 of 7 facilities

Williamson County

2 of 2 facilities

Wilson County

1 of 1 facility

County not listed

6 of 6 facilities

Tennessee 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 Tennessee 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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