Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Pineland, TX

Pineland is a city in southwestern Sabine County in the East Texas Piney Woods, on U.S. Highway 96 about ten miles southwest of Hemphill, the county seat.

Pineland began in 1902 as a sawmill and lumber camp on the newly built Gulf, Beaumont and Great Northern Railway, and it was first known as John Adam's Mill.

The community took the name Pineland by 1904, when its post office opened with Walter Everett as the first postmaster.

A commercial sawmill began operating in Pineland in 1907 under the Garrison Norton Lumber Company, and in 1910 Thomas L. L. Temple bought the operation and formed the Temple Lumber Company.

Pineland grew into a classic company town populated almost entirely by mill workers and their families, reaching about 1,500 residents by 1925.

Residents of Pineland voted to incorporate the town in 1941.

The mill anchored Pineland's economy through a chain of owners — Temple Lumber, Temple Industries, and Temple-Inland — before Georgia-Pacific took over the operation in 2013.

In 2023 Georgia-Pacific completed a $120 million expansion of the Pineland Lumber Complex, making it the largest sawmill in the southern United States, producing about 450 million board feet of lumber a year.

More than 300 lumber trucks come and go from the Pineland mill every day.

In 2025 a resolution in the Texas Legislature sought to designate Pineland as the official Lumber Capital of Texas.