Caroline County County · Virginia mill directory
JH Knighton Lumber Co.
Chip mill · Other processor · Sawmill
JH Knighton Lumber Co. is listed as a chip mill, a primary wood processor the source does not classify further and a sawmill at 25227 Jefferson Davis Highway, Ruther Glen, VA 22546, in Caroline County County. If you came looking for a chip mill near me, this is the Ruther Glen 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
25227 Jefferson Davis HighwayRuther Glen, VA 22546
- Town
- Ruther Glen
- County
- Caroline County County, Virginia
- ZIP
- 22546
- Published coordinates
- 37.91783, -77.47546
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
Chip mill
A chip mill has no saw line. Roundwood goes in whole and leaves as clean chips by truck or railcar for a pulp, paper or panel mill, which is why a chip mill takes the small stems, crooked wood and thinnings a grade sawmill turns down.
Other processor
The source lists this facility as a primary wood processor without naming the process it runs, so what it takes and what it makes are on the agency's own record rather than being inferred here.
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
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 3 facilities listed in Caroline County County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Caroline 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 Flippo Lumber Corp. in Doswell, 4 miles away, WT Jones & Sons Inc. in Ruther Glen, 7 miles away and Falling Creek Log Yard in Ashland, 8 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 Caroline County County
1
Of them run as a chip mill
101mi
Straight line to the nearest other chip mill
169
Listed facilities statewide
Across Caroline County County the sources list 3 sawmill listings, 1 chip mill, 1 other processor. 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 Caroline County County
Every other listed facility in Caroline County County, Virginia.
Nearest Chip mill listings in Virginia
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for JH Knighton Lumber Co. - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
Nearest Other processor listings in Virginia
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for JH Knighton Lumber Co. - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
- Blue Ridge Lumber (Miller's Tavern)Millers Tavern, Essex County CountyOther processor28 mi
- WestrockHopewell, Hopewell city CountyOther processor44 mi
- Hale Lumber Co. & Wood ProductsLanexa, New Kent County CountyOther processor47 mi
- Scott Pallets Inc.Amelia Court House, Amelia County CountySawmill · Other processor49 mi
- Ramoneda Brothers LLCCulpeper, Culpeper County CountyOther processor50 mi
- AHI - Augusta Lumber LLCAmissville, Culpeper County CountyOther processor · Sawmill59 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 Caroline County County?
This listing says where JH Knighton 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 Ruther Glen answer that themselves.