Whatcom County · Washington mill directory
Bell Lumber & Pole Co
Post & pole plant
Bell Lumber & Pole Co is listed as a post and pole plant at 730 Marine Dr, Bellingham, WA 98225, in Whatcom County. If you came looking for a post and pole plant near me, this is the Bellingham end of that question: the address is published, your own is not, so the haul is yours to measure. The listing is published by Washington Forest Products Processing Facilities (University of Washington / WA Dept of Commerce); AXE USA republishes it as it stands and adds nothing to it.
Where it is
730 Marine DrBellingham, WA 98225
- Town
- Bellingham
- County
- Whatcom County, Washington
- ZIP
- 98225
- Published coordinates
- 48.76849, -122.51603
How to reach it
What this facility is
Post & pole plant
A post and pole plant peels roundwood to size and usually treats it against rot. It wants straight, small-diameter stems of consistent taper - wood a sawmill cannot break down profitably but a fence or utility line can use whole.
What it takes
The record lists fir, cedar and larch as the material it accepts.
What comes off it
The source names one product line coming off this site: poles.
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 record has this facility taking fir, cedar, and larch, and species decides more of what a load is worth than the gate it goes through. No full guide is up for Douglas-fir, eastern redcedar and tamarack and western larch yet, so the reference list carries a row on each instead: where they grow, what buyers take them for, and the catch that pulls the price down - and the source stops at fir and cedar without naming a species, so those rows are where to start rather than a reading of this deck.
It is one of 5 facilities listed in Whatcom County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Whatcom County section of the state page has every one of them side by side, and all 81 Washington listings run across 25 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 Bell Lumber & Pole Co in Longview, 183 miles away, Great Western Lumber Co. in Everson and Interfor Cedarprime in Sumas. 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 Whatcom County
1
Of them run as a post & pole plant
183mi
Straight line to the nearest other post & pole plant
81
Listed facilities statewide
Across Whatcom County the sources list 2 reman listings, 2 sawmill listings, 1 post & pole plant. 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
- Washington Forest Products Processing Facilities (University of Washington / WA Dept of Commerce) (opens in a new tab)
- Edition
- June 2024
- 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 Whatcom County
Every other listed facility in Whatcom County, Washington.
Nearest Post & pole plant listings in Washington
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for Bell Lumber & Pole Co - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
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 Whatcom County?
This listing says where Bell Lumber & Pole 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 Bellingham answer that themselves.