Texas · Timber buyers & mill directory

Timber buyers & sawmillsin Texas

106 facilities across 44 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
106
Counties
44
On the map
106
With a phone
None

No Texas 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 Texas. 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 Texas

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 Texas the way a load actually travels - by county. 44 counties carry a listing, Nacogdoches County the most at 8, and 18 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 Texas 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 Texas

The mills listed here are the buyers at the end of the line for Texas 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 106 facilities across 44 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.

51 of the 106 Texas listings are sawmills, alongside 14 post & pole plants, 11 mulch plants, 10 other processors, and a few other plant types. Tops and small stems are sold as pulpwood, and the 3 pulp & paper mills, 2 chip mills, and 1 pellet & energy plant on this page are where that wood is taken. The Texas 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 Texas 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. Arkansas's 175 listings, Louisiana's 63 listings and New Mexico's 50 listings sit across Texas'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.

Every listing here has a page of its own - click a mill's name for its address, what it takes, and the mills nearest to it.

Anderson County

1 of 1 facility

Angelina County

3 of 3 facilities

Atascosa County

1 of 1 facility

Bastrop County

4 of 4 facilities

Blanco County

1 of 1 facility

Bowie County

2 of 2 facilities

Cass County

4 of 4 facilities

Cherokee County

7 of 7 facilities

Ellis County

1 of 1 facility

Franklin County

1 of 1 facility

Gregg County

4 of 4 facilities

Hardin County

1 of 1 facility

Harris County

3 of 3 facilities

Harrison County

2 of 2 facilities

Houston County

1 of 1 facility

Jasper County

7 of 7 facilities

Kerr County

1 of 1 facility

Kimble County

2 of 2 facilities

Lamar County

1 of 1 facility

Lampasas County

1 of 1 facility

Liberty County

3 of 3 facilities

Marion County

1 of 1 facility

Montgomery County

3 of 3 facilities

Morris County

1 of 1 facility

Nacogdoches County

8 of 8 facilities

Newton County

3 of 3 facilities

Orange County

2 of 2 facilities

Panola County

1 of 1 facility

Polk County

6 of 6 facilities

Real County

1 of 1 facility

Red River County

2 of 2 facilities

Rusk County

2 of 2 facilities

Sabine County

3 of 3 facilities

San Augustine County

2 of 2 facilities

San Jacinto County

3 of 3 facilities

Shelby County

3 of 3 facilities

Smith County

1 of 1 facility

Tarrant County

1 of 1 facility

Titus County

2 of 2 facilities

Trinity County

1 of 1 facility

Tyler County

2 of 2 facilities

Upshur County

2 of 2 facilities

Walker County

4 of 4 facilities

Wood County

1 of 1 facility

Texas 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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    Primary Forest Products Network (Southern Group of State Foresters)

Selling Texas 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.