Pallets in Nassau County, Florida
Nassau County, north of Jacksonville, is rail-served manufacturing country: paper and pulp, rail-linked plants and distribution. Crawford Diamond Industrial Park is the only industrial site in Florida where CSX and Norfolk Southern main lines intersect.
Crawford Diamond
The certified park has 400 acres available, dual Class I rail frontage and is about 18 miles from I-95, I-10 and Jacksonville. Three ports, Fernandina, Jacksonville and Brunswick, are reachable in under one hour (Nassau County).
Paper, pulp and a small port
The county lists paper and pulp, rail-served manufacturing, glass manufacturing (proposed) and distribution among its industries, and tree farming and pulp are major local sectors. The Port of Fernandina handles pulp, paper and steel exports. Paper means wood in and heavy reels out, so mills buy bases built for weight, on a spec.
| Business | Pallet |
|---|---|
| Mills and paper | Heavy, dry, new or combo; paper and mills |
| Rail-served plants | Spec builds in steady volume |
| Distribution | Sorted 48x40 |
| Exporters toward Jacksonville | HT-stamped wood |
Roads
Interstate 95 carries trucks through the county, and US 1, US 17, US 23, US 90, US 301 and State Road A1A cross it. Interstate 10 touches the county without an exit in it.
Yulee
Yulee (ZIP 32097) lies along I-95 north of Jacksonville, within 15 miles of Amelia Island. It is largely a bedroom community, so its commercial pallet demand is retail and light distribution: a store or distributor with a few dozen mixed pallets behind the dock, a light-industrial tenant buying sorted 48x40s in small numbers, a contractor yard with weathered wood to clear. Those go through small loads.
Rayonier moved its headquarters to the area in 2017, and its Wildlight development plans a mixed-use community on former pine forest. Construction of that scale puts building-supply pallets on site first, heavy and mostly one-way.
Callahan
Callahan (ZIP 32011) is the Nassau town nearest Duval, where US 1, US 23 and US 301 meet, with SR A1A and SR 200 also running through. The CSX Nahunta Subdivision runs from Jacksonville to Savannah and the CSX Callahan Subdivision runs south to Baldwin, so freight headed for JAXPORT can leave by road or rail.
Rail-served plants here load heavy product. Their pallets are block or heavy stringer builds, usually bought to a spec sheet in steady truckloads, and their broken pallets are ground rather than repaired.
| Need | Pallet |
|---|---|
| Steady heavy loads | New or combo block |
| Mixed cores | Sorted before resale |
| Export via Jacksonville | HT-stamped |
What a plant's request should say
- The size and count of the stack, split into whole and broken.
- Whether any pallets carry a rented-pool mark.
- The street, the gate and the hours it is open.
- Whether a forklift is on site or the load must be lifted by hand.
Questions
What rail serves Nassau?
CSX and Norfolk Southern.
Keep reading
Sources, reviewed 12 November 2026: Crawford Diamond; Nassau County, Florida (Wikipedia); Yulee, Florida (Wikipedia); Callahan, Florida (Wikipedia).