The mills listed here are the buyers at the end of the line for Kentucky 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 301 facilities across 95 counties, all of them on the map above, so you can see what sits within working distance of your ground before anyone quotes you a number.
232 of the 301 Kentucky listings are sawmills, alongside 31 other processors, 6 shavings mills, 3 chip mills, and a few other plant types. Tops and small stems are sold as pulpwood, and the 3 chip mills and 1 pulp & paper mill on this page are where that wood is taken. The Kentucky 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 Kentucky 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.
Kentucky Division of Forestry publishes delivered log prices from its own survey. Updated twice a year. That is public record rather than a licensed average, so the page on timber prices in Kentucky can carry the figures themselves, each one with the sale and the edition behind it. A state average is still not your cheque - species, county, and which mills are buying this quarter decide that, which is the argument the market board makes at length.
A mill does not care which side of a state line your county is on, and neither should the search. Tennessee's 320 listings and Virginia's 169 listings sit across Kentucky'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.