Amherst County County · Virginia mill directory
EF Fitzgerald Lumber Co.
Sawmill
EF Fitzgerald Lumber Co. is listed as a sawmill at 174 Baileys Sawmill Road, Amherst, VA 24521, in Amherst County County. If you came looking for a sawmill near me, this is the Amherst 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
174 Baileys Sawmill RoadAmherst, VA 24521
- Town
- Amherst
- County
- Amherst County County, Virginia
- ZIP
- 24521
- Published coordinates
- 37.69501, -79.23596
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.
What it takes
Hardwood is the only material the source records this facility as accepting.
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 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 3 facilities listed in Amherst County County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Amherst County County section of the state page has every one of them side by side, and all 169 Virginia listings run across 74 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 Northwest Hardwoods (Fitzgerald Lumber & Log Co. Inc.) in Buena Vista, 7 miles away, Northwest Hardwoods (formerly Shenandoah Hardwood Lumber Co.) in Buena Vista, 7 miles away and BT Ramsey & Sons in Piney River, 12 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
3
Listed facilities in Amherst County County
3
Of them run as a sawmill
7mi
Straight line to the nearest other sawmill
169
Listed facilities statewide
Across Amherst County County the sources list 3 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
- 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 Amherst County County
Every other listed facility in Amherst County County, Virginia.
Nearest Sawmill listings in Virginia
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for EF Fitzgerald Lumber Co. - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
- Northwest Hardwoods (Fitzgerald Lumber & Log Co. Inc.)Buena Vista, Buena Vista city CountySawmill7 mi
- Northwest Hardwoods (formerly Shenandoah Hardwood Lumber Co.)Buena Vista, Buena Vista city CountySawmill7 mi
- BT Ramsey & SonsPiney River, Nelson County CountySawmill12 mi
- Ramsey & Son Lumber Co.Amherst, Amherst County CountySawmill13 mi
- Roberts and SonsTyro, Nelson County CountyFirewood ยท Sawmill16 mi
- WR Deacon & Sons Timber Inc.Lexington, Rockbridge County CountySawmill17 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 Amherst County County?
This listing says where EF Fitzgerald Lumber Co. 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 Amherst answer that themselves.