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Literally just go on craigslist and look for people that need wood removed. Plenty of people with downed trees and such, if you have the time, transportation, tools and energy you can get whole cords like this.
Ran a wood stove in VA for 2 full winters a couple of years back using free wood which we transported with our little old van. We would probably move 800 lbs of wood at one time like that. The suspension would be almost bottomed out from the weight. If you have a vehicle you don't care much about, you can move immense amounts without a meme truck.
Yes, you will need to split it yourself. We did it with a walmart sledgehammer and a wedge from lowes. I actually broke one of those wedges in half and we had to get another. We never needed a chainsaw, always went to people that had already the tree cut into rounds. If you had one it would expand your opportunities significantly.
By the way, if you don't have a wood stove, I highly recommend you get one. Bit of a difficulty to get it out of the house of the person you buy it from, and harder to install in your fireplace, but if you can pull it off they are incredible. Fireplaces basically make your house colder because they pull outside air in and shoot all the hot air up the chimney, a stove pulls air in a tube and out of the house up the chimney which you seal around the exit, so the heat just radiates off the metal of the stove and into your house without pulling any cold air in from the outside.
