Bedford County County · Virginia mill directory
Georgia-Pacific Corp. Big Island Mill
Pulp & paper mill
Georgia-Pacific Corp. Big Island Mill is listed as a pulp and paper mill at 9363 Lee Jackson Hwy, Big Island, VA 24526, in Bedford County County. If you came looking for a pulp and paper mill near me, this is the Big Island 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
9363 Lee Jackson HwyBig Island, VA 24526
- Town
- Big Island
- County
- Bedford County County, Virginia
- ZIP
- 24526
- Published coordinates
- 37.52814, -79.35417
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
Pulp & paper mill
A pulp and paper mill cooks or grinds pulpwood into fibre and runs it onto a paper or board machine. Mills at this scale buy by the ton and run year-round, and their pulpwood demand sets the floor price for thinnings across the counties around them.
What it takes
Softwood 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 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 Bedford County County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Bedford 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 Greif Brothers Corp. in Gladstone, 24 miles away, WestRock - Covington in Covington, 40 miles away and WestRock (formerly RockTenn) in Hopewell, 115 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 Bedford County County
1
Of them run as a pulp & paper mill
24mi
Straight line to the nearest other pulp & paper mill
169
Listed facilities statewide
Across Bedford County County the sources list 4 sawmill listings, 1 pulp & paper 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 Bedford County County
Every other listed facility in Bedford County County, Virginia.
Nearest Pulp & paper mill listings in Virginia
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for Georgia-Pacific Corp. Big Island Mill - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
- Greif Brothers Corp.Gladstone, Nelson County CountyPulp & paper mill24 mi
- WestRock - CovingtonCovington, Alleghany County CountyPulp & paper mill40 mi
- WestRock (formerly RockTenn)Hopewell, Hopewell city CountyPulp & paper mill115 mi
- Westrock (West Point)West Point, King William County CountyPulp & paper mill140 mi
- International PaperFranklin, Franklin city CountyPulp & paper mill148 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 Bedford County County?
This listing says where Georgia-Pacific Corp. Big Island 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 Big Island answer that themselves.