NAICS 321113 · Manufacturing
Sawmills: Business Name Ideas
48 name ideas, the official industry definition, and 2,706 U.S. business locations broken down by state.
What this industry covers
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in sawing dimension lumber, boards, beams, timbers, poles, ties, shingles, shakes, siding, and wood chips from logs or bolts. Sawmills may plane the rough lumber that they make with a planing machine to achieve smoothness and uniformity of size.
Businesses classified here include
- Beams, wood, made from logs or bolts
- Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts
- Ceiling lumber, made from logs or bolts
- Chipper mills (except portable)
- Custom sawmills
- Dimension lumber, hardwood, made from logs or bolts
- Dimension lumber, made from logs or bolts
- Dimension lumber, softwood, made from logs or bolts
- Flitches (i.e., veneer stock) made in sawmills
- Lumber (i.e., rough, dressed) made from logs or bolts
- Lumber, hardwood dimension, made from logs or bolts
- Lumber, softwood dimension, made from logs or bolts
- Poles, wood, made from log or bolts
- Pressure treated lumber made from logs or bolts and treated
- Sawdust and shavings (i.e., sawmill byproducts) manufacturing
- Sawed lumber made in sawmills
- Sawmills
- Shakes (i.e., hand split shingles) manufacturing
- Shingle mills, wood
- Shingles, wood, sawed or hand split, manufacturing
- Siding mills, wood
- Siding, dressed lumber, manufacturing
- Stud mills
- Ties, railroad, made from logs or bolts
- Ties, wood, made from logs or bolts
- Timbers, made from logs or bolts
- Wood chips made in sawmills
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 321113), U.S. Census Bureau.
Name ideas for sawmills
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U.S. business numbers
Locations by number of employees nationwide
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.
Top states for sawmills
- Pennsylvania 244 locations
- Missouri 153 locations
- North Carolina 130 locations
- Tennessee 123 locations
- Virginia 119 locations
- Kentucky 117 locations
- Texas 110 locations
- Michigan 107 locations
- Arkansas 105 locations
- Washington 104 locations
All 47 states
- Alabama (90)
- Alaska (11)
- Arizona (8)
- Arkansas (105)
- California (59)
- Colorado (24)
- Connecticut (10)
- Florida (46)
- Georgia (102)
- Idaho (32)
- Illinois (40)
- Indiana (74)
- Iowa (20)
- Kansas (5)
- Kentucky (117)
- Louisiana (40)
- Maine (60)
- Maryland (19)
- Massachusetts (14)
- Michigan (107)
- Minnesota (28)
- Mississippi (73)
- Missouri (153)
- Montana (38)
- Nebraska (4)
- Nevada (4)
- New Hampshire (38)
- New Jersey (9)
- New Mexico (8)
- New York (70)
- North Carolina (130)
- Ohio (90)
- Oklahoma (13)
- Oregon (97)
- Pennsylvania (244)
- Rhode Island (4)
- South Carolina (40)
- South Dakota (8)
- Tennessee (123)
- Texas (110)
- Utah (9)
- Vermont (35)
- Virginia (119)
- Washington (104)
- West Virginia (60)
- Wisconsin (102)
- Wyoming (6)