Gilkey Lumber Co Inc

About Gilkey Lumber Co Inc

Gilkey Lumber Co Inc is a family owned hardwood lumber mill in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. It buys standing timber from landowners, and it also runs contract logging and gives forestry help. The company was started in 1954 by Jess Parton. It buys timber in Western North Carolina, Upstate South Carolina, and Eastern Tennessee, and has bought standing timber in western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina for over sixty years. Its harvests include clearcut, reforestation, and thinning jobs, plus harvests tied to new housing or business parks. For landowners who sell to it, the company can write a forest management plan and help with replanting. It also helps North Carolina owners apply for use tax valuation, which may reduce property tax while the land stays in forestry. Its timber procurement representatives are North Carolina and South Carolina Registered Foresters with Bachelor of Science degrees in Forest Management. Harvesting is supervised on site, and payment is either up front or prompt pay as cut. To start, the company offers a "no cost, no obligation assessment" of your timberland, and a representative will set up a site visit. This one suits a landowner in those three areas who wants a sawmill buyer that also does the logging and the forestry planning. From gilkeylumber.com, read 10 October 2026.