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Timber buyers & sawmillsin Virginia

169 facilities across 74 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
169
Counties
74
On the map
168
With a phone
None

No Virginia 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 Virginia. 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 Virginia

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 Virginia the way a load actually travels - by county. 74 counties carry a listing, Charlotte County County the most at 8, and 31 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. The 2 listings whose source published no county sit in a group at the foot of the same list.

Sawmill lumber near me is a different search again - that one wants a mill selling boards, not a mill buying logs. No Virginia 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 Virginia

The mills listed here are the buyers at the end of the line for Virginia 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 169 facilities across 74 counties, 168 of them on the map above, so you can see what sits within working distance of your ground before anyone quotes you a number.

127 of the 169 Virginia listings are sawmills, alongside 18 other processors, 7 firewood producers, 6 post & pole plants, and a few other plant types. Tops and small stems are sold as pulpwood, and the 6 pulp & paper mills and 5 chip mills on this page are where that wood is taken. The Virginia 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 Virginia 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. Tennessee's 320 listings, Kentucky's 301 listings and North Carolina's 245 listings sit across Virginia'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.

Albemarle County County

3 of 3 facilities

Alleghany County County

3 of 3 facilities

Amelia County County

4 of 4 facilities

Amherst County County

3 of 3 facilities

Appomattox County County

3 of 3 facilities

Augusta County County

1 of 1 facility

Bath County County

2 of 2 facilities

Bedford County County

5 of 5 facilities

Bland County County

2 of 2 facilities

Brunswick County County

5 of 5 facilities

Buchanan County County

1 of 1 facility

Buckingham County County

2 of 2 facilities

Buena Vista city County

2 of 2 facilities

Campbell County County

6 of 6 facilities

Caroline County County

3 of 3 facilities

Carroll County County

2 of 2 facilities

Charlotte County County

8 of 8 facilities

Charlottesville city County

1 of 1 facility

Chesapeake city County

1 of 1 facility

Culpeper County County

6 of 6 facilities

Cumberland County County

2 of 2 facilities

Dinwiddie County County

1 of 1 facility

Essex County County

3 of 3 facilities

Floyd County County

2 of 2 facilities

Fluvanna County County

1 of 1 facility

Franklin County

1 of 1 facility

Franklin city County

3 of 3 facilities

Franklin County County

1 of 1 facility

Grayson County County

2 of 2 facilities

Greene County County

2 of 2 facilities

Greensville County County

1 of 1 facility

Halifax County County

7 of 7 facilities

Hanover County County

5 of 5 facilities

Harrisonburg city County

1 of 1 facility

Henry County County

3 of 3 facilities

Hopewell city County

2 of 2 facilities

King William County

1 of 1 facility

King William County County

2 of 2 facilities

Lee County County

1 of 1 facility

Loudoun County County

1 of 1 facility

Louisa County County

2 of 2 facilities

Mecklenburg County County

1 of 1 facility

Middlesex County County

2 of 2 facilities

Montgomery County County

1 of 1 facility

Nelson County County

3 of 3 facilities

New Kent County County

3 of 3 facilities

Nottoway County County

2 of 2 facilities

Orange County County

2 of 2 facilities

Patrick County County

5 of 5 facilities

Pittsylvania County County

7 of 7 facilities

Prince Edward County County

2 of 2 facilities

Prince William County County

1 of 1 facility

Richmond County County

2 of 2 facilities

Rockbridge County County

2 of 2 facilities

Rockingham County County

1 of 1 facility

Scott County County

2 of 2 facilities

Shenandoah County County

3 of 3 facilities

Smyth County County

1 of 1 facility

Spotsylvania County County

3 of 3 facilities

Stafford County County

1 of 1 facility

Surry County County

1 of 1 facility

Tazewell County County

1 of 1 facility

Virginia Beach city County

1 of 1 facility

Virginia_Chesapeake County

1 of 1 facility

Virginia_Franklin County

1 of 1 facility

Virginia_Norfolk County

1 of 1 facility

Virginia_Richmond City County

1 of 1 facility

Virginia_Washington County

1 of 1 facility

Warren County County

1 of 1 facility

Washington County County

2 of 2 facilities

Waynesboro city County

1 of 1 facility

Westmoreland County County

1 of 1 facility

Wise County County

2 of 2 facilities

Wythe County County

1 of 1 facility

County not listed

2 of 2 facilities

Virginia 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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Selling Virginia 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.

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