Louisa County County · Virginia mill directory
RD Knighton Sawmill
Sawmill
RD Knighton Sawmill is listed as a sawmill at 13660 Jefferson Highway, Bumpass, VA 23024, in Louisa County County. If you came looking for a sawmill near me, this is the Bumpass 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
13660 Jefferson HighwayBumpass, VA 23024
- Town
- Bumpass
- County
- Louisa County County, Virginia
- ZIP
- 23024
- Published coordinates
- 37.87589, -77.82329
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
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 2 facilities listed in Louisa County County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Louisa 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 RL Beckley Sawmill in Montpelier, 4 miles away, JH Knighton Lumber Co. in Ruther Glen, 19 miles away and Flippo Lumber Corp. in Doswell, 19 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
2
Listed facilities in Louisa County County
2
Of them run as a sawmill
4mi
Straight line to the nearest other sawmill
169
Listed facilities statewide
Across Louisa County County the sources list 2 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 Louisa County County
Every other listed facility in Louisa County County, Virginia.
Nearest Sawmill listings in Virginia
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for RD Knighton Sawmill - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
- RL Beckley SawmillMontpelier, Hanover County CountySawmill4 mi
- JH Knighton Lumber Co.Ruther Glen, Caroline County CountyChip mill · Other processor · Sawmill19 mi
- Flippo Lumber Corp.Doswell, Hanover County CountySawmill19 mi
- Falling Creek Log YardAshland, Hanover County CountySawmill20 mi
- James H. Chewning Jr. Lumber Co.Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County CountySawmill20 mi
- Ellisville Lumber LLCOrange, Orange County CountySawmill21 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 Louisa County County?
This listing says where RD Knighton Sawmill 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 Bumpass answer that themselves.