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Timber buyers & sawmillsin Wisconsin

211 facilities across 63 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
211
Counties
63
On the map
173
With a phone
181

181 of these 211 Wisconsin listings carry a phone number, because that is how many rows the source published one for - no number is borrowed from anywhere else. These counts are what the agencies published — not a census of every mill in Wisconsin. 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 Wisconsin

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 Wisconsin the way a load actually travels - by county. 63 counties carry a listing, Eau Claire County the most at 14, and 17 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.

Sawmill lumber near me is a different search again - that one wants a mill selling boards, not a mill buying logs. 138 of these 211 Wisconsin listings name lumber as a product line on the agency record, so those are the ones worth a call for sawn stock - no source says whether a plant sells retail, in what dimensions, or in what quantity. Selling standing timber instead? the landowner's guide to selling timber takes the sale in the order it happens, and sealed bidding puts one tract in front of several buyers at once.

For landowners

Selling timber in Wisconsin

The mills listed here are the buyers at the end of the line for Wisconsin 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 211 facilities across 63 counties, 173 of them on the map above, so you can see what sits within working distance of your ground before anyone quotes you a number.

173 of the 211 Wisconsin listings are sawmills, alongside 8 other processors, 6 pellet & energy plants, 5 chip mills, and a few other plant types. Tops and small stems are sold as pulpwood, and the 6 pellet & energy plants, 5 chip mills, and 4 pulp & paper mills on this page are where that wood is taken. The Wisconsin records name what each plant accepts - oak, maple, pine, ash, and aspen among 24 species in all - so the species line on a card tells you whether your stand is what that mill runs. 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.

23 species are named across these Wisconsin listings, oak by 95 of them. There is a guide here for white oak, red oak and Southern yellow pine, each one covering grade, form, the defects that cost money and what the wood is normally cut for - which is how you work out whether your stand is what these mills run. Shorter entries on the same page cover hard maple and soft maple - what buyers take each for, and the catch.

A mill does not care which side of a state line your county is on, and neither should the search. Michigan's 302 listings sit across Wisconsin'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.

203 of these 211 listings have a page of their own - click a mill's name for its address, what it takes, and the mills nearest to it. The other 8 were published without a street address, so everything known about them is already on the card.

Ashland County

1 of 1 facility

Barron County

7 of 7 facilities

Bayfield County

3 of 3 facilities

Brown County

2 of 2 facilities

Buffalo County

3 of 3 facilities

Burnett County

1 of 1 facility

Calumet County

1 of 1 facility

Chippewa County

3 of 3 facilities

Clark County

3 of 3 facilities

Columbia County

1 of 1 facility

Crawford County

4 of 4 facilities

Dane County

4 of 4 facilities

Door County

2 of 2 facilities

Douglas County

1 of 1 facility

Dunn County

3 of 3 facilities

Eau Claire County

14 of 14 facilities

Florence County

4 of 4 facilities

Forest County

3 of 3 facilities

Grant County

3 of 3 facilities

Green County

1 of 1 facility

Green Lake County

1 of 1 facility

Iron County

1 of 1 facility

Jackson County

3 of 3 facilities

Juneau County

2 of 2 facilities

Kenosha County

2 of 2 facilities

Kewaunee County

1 of 1 facility

La Crosse County

1 of 1 facility

Langlade County

1 of 1 facility

Lincoln County

5 of 5 facilities

Manitowoc County

2 of 2 facilities

Marathon County

10 of 10 facilities

Marinette County

10 of 10 facilities

Marquette County

2 of 2 facilities

Menominee County

1 of 1 facility

Milwaukee County

3 of 3 facilities

Monroe County

1 of 1 facility

Oconto County

3 of 3 facilities

Oneida County

3 of 3 facilities

Outagamie County

4 of 4 facilities

Ozaukee County

2 of 2 facilities

Pierce County

1 of 1 facility

Portage County

2 of 2 facilities

Price County

6 of 6 facilities

Racine County

3 of 3 facilities

Richland County

3 of 3 facilities

Rock County

1 of 1 facility

Rusk County

2 of 2 facilities

Sauk County

5 of 5 facilities

Sawyer County

7 of 7 facilities

Shawano County

5 of 5 facilities

St. Croix County

1 of 1 facility

Taylor County

7 of 7 facilities

Trempealeau County

3 of 3 facilities

Vernon County

8 of 8 facilities

Vilas County

4 of 4 facilities

Walworth County

2 of 2 facilities

Washburn County

5 of 5 facilities

Washington County

1 of 1 facility

Waukesha County

2 of 2 facilities

Waupaca County

7 of 7 facilities

Waushara County

4 of 4 facilities

Winnebago County

3 of 3 facilities

Wood County

7 of 7 facilities

Wisconsin sources

Fetched 2026-08-18. Fields are never merged between documents, so a listing from a source with no phone number stays without one.

  • 211listings

    Wisconsin Primary Forest Product Mills (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)

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Selling Wisconsin 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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