Bulk Gravel and Stone Delivery in Arkansas County, AR

Planning a driveway, a parking pad, a shed floor or a drainage run in Arkansas County, AR? Arkansas Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone and aggregate to the job, and the material that starts most of those builds is SB-2 base.

SB-2 is the dense graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone this part of Arkansas knows by name. It carries its fines, so it locks up under a roller.

The ground it goes on is heavy Delta clay, and that shapes what you order.

Ground Conditions Across Arkansas County

Across the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, the ground is deep alluvial silt loam, silty clay and heavy clay. Locals call it buckshot and gumbo.

It was laid down by big rivers, and it holds water.

Flat ground, a high water table and clay that barely takes water mean rain stands where it falls. Field ditches and bayous drain slowly, and backwater can hold for days.

That standing water is why a base course matters more here than in drier country. Wet clay pumps and ruts under a loaded truck, so the structural layer has to carry the load instead of the soil.

Erosion shows up as sheet wash off bare ground, ditch and bayou bank sloughing, and bank caving along the big rivers. Rip rap and large river rock armor those banks and culvert outlets.

Work runs all year here. Wet winter and spring ground is the real constraint, and the midsummer dry spell that shrinks and cracks the clay is the best window for base work.

Winters are short and mild, and frost is shallow. The clay is wet enough through the winter that a loaded truck will rut a drive deeply with no frost involved at all.

Materials Delivered in Arkansas County

SB-2 base is the standard Arkansas base material: a dense graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in. It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads and pipe bedding.

When you are working to a written standard, the same material appears as Class 7 base.

Class 7 is the 1 1/2 inch dense grading, and Class 8 is the 1 inch version. Section 302 covers select material used as a foundation course underneath.

Cities and counties write Class 7 into their own street, sidewalk and parking standards.

Washed sizes cover drainage work. #57 limestone handles French drains, foundation and pipe drainage, and a clean top over a compacted base.

3/4 inch clean limestone suits drainage beds, construction entrances and drive surfacing.

Natural Pea Gravel, screenings and mason sand finish the finer end. Screenings bed pavers, flagstone and brick and fill joints.

Mason sand goes into brick, block and stone work, paver joints and play sand.

Soil and decorative material round out an order. Screened topsoil builds lawns and beds, garden soil fills raised beds, fill dirt raises low ground before a base course goes on, and shredded mulch holds moisture through a Delta summer.

Delivery Across Arkansas County

Bulk material arrives on a dump truck that tips the load in one pile on site. Have the drop area clear and reachable, with room for the truck to get in and out.

You order online. Quantities are by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.

Pick a delivery date at checkout.

Delivery covers Stuttgart, DeWitt, Gillett, St. Charles, Almyra, Humphrey, Casscoe, Crocketts Bluff, Ethel and Tichnor, plus the surrounding county roads and farm ground.

Choosing the Right Material

Lonoke County and Jefferson County sit on the same Mississippi Alluvial Plain ground as Arkansas County: deep alluvial silt loam, silty clay and heavy clay, with sandier natural levee ridges and older terraces such as the Grand Prairie. The ground is the same, so the base and drainage choices are the same.

Phillips County spans more than one ground region. Part of it is Mississippi Alluvial Plain and part is Crowley's Ridge.

That difference matters. Crowley's Ridge ground is higher and better drained than Delta clay, so a site there sheds water instead of holding it.

On Delta clay, drainage stone and a base course do the work that well-drained ground does on its own.

Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Arkansas County

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers SB-2 base, washed stone, sand, topsoil, fill dirt and decorative rock across Arkansas County. Driveways, parking pads, shed floors, drainage runs and bank armoring all start with the right material.

Size your load with the calculator on any product page, then place your order online and pick a delivery date.