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Pend Oreille County · Washington mill directory
Sawmill · Chip mill
Vaagen Brothers Lumber is listed as a sawmill and a chip mill at 137 5th St, Usk, WA 99180, in Pend Oreille County. If you came looking for a sawmill near me, this is the Usk 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.
These are published facility records, not offers to buy. Some mills take delivered logs but do not buy standing timber. No listing establishes current buying, prices or gate hours; call before hauling.
Trees still on your land? Start with the sale guide. If you own or are authorized to sell the tract, you can request bids for the standing timber; the directory is not a bid from a mill.
Read the standing timber guide →Request bids for my tract →Browse the published listings and check the species, address and contact source. Call to confirm the mill is operating, accepts your load and can receive it before you travel.
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Claim this mill’s listing →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.
A chip mill has no saw line. Roundwood goes in whole and leaves as clean chips by truck or railcar for a pulp, paper or panel mill, which is why a chip mill takes the small stems, crooked wood and thinnings a grade sawmill turns down.
The record lists 7 materials it accepts: fir, larch, spruce, pine, softwood, hemlock and cedar.
The source names 2 product lines coming off this site: lumber and timbers.
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
The record has this facility taking fir, larch, spruce, pine, softwood, hemlock, and cedar, and species decides more of what a load is worth than the gate it goes through. No full guide is up for Douglas-fir, tamarack and western larch and spruce and fir 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.
It is the only facility the Washington sources list in Pend Oreille County, which is worth knowing before you plan a haul: the next gate is in another county. The Pend Oreille County section of the state page shows it standing alone, and all 81 Washington listings cover 25 counties.
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 Boise Cascade - Colville in Colville, 29 miles away, Columbia Cedar Inc Arden in Colville, 29 miles away and Vaagen Brothers Lumber Inc in Colville, 33 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.
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Listed facilities in Pend Oreille County
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Of them run as a sawmill
29mi
Straight line to the nearest other sawmill
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Listed facilities statewide
Across Pend Oreille County the sources list 1 chip mill, 1 sawmill. A facility can be listed under more than one of those, so the numbers overlap rather than adding up.
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.
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for Vaagen Brothers Lumber - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
Do you run Vaagen Brothers Lumber?
This page was written from Washington Forest Products Processing Facilities (University of Washington / WA Dept of Commerce). Sign for it and you can fix what the record got wrong - the phone, the hours, the address - and tell the landowners reading it what species and lengths you are buying right now. No agency document has ever said that, which is why they have no way to know whether it is worth calling you. There is no queue, nothing to pay, and nothing held back until you do.
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.
This listing says where Vaagen Brothers Lumber 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 Usk answer that themselves.