Gravel, Stone and Soil for Craighead County, AR

Arkansas Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Craighead County, AR. Order online by the ton or by the yard and a dump truck brings it to your site.

Start with SB-2 base, the dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone Arkansas builds on. Craighead County spans two ground regions, so what sits under your project changes from one town to the next.

Materials Delivered in Craighead County

SB-2 base is the standard Arkansas base material. It is a dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in, so it locks up under a roller.

Table 303-1 sets the aggregate base course gradings as Class 1 through Class 8, and Class 7 is the 1 1/2 inch dense grading sold across the state as SB-2.

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

Use SB-2 Base for driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads and pipe bedding. When you are working to a written spec, ask for Class 7 base: it is the same material under the name engineers write.

Washed stone handles the drainage side. #57 Limestone goes in French drains, foundation and pipe drainage and concrete, and 3/4" Crushed Stone covers drainage beds, construction entrances and drive surfacing.

For bedding and joints, Screenings set pavers, flagstone and brick and fill the joints. Washed Sand beds and levels under slabs and pools, and Mason Sand serves brick, block and stone work.

Decorative stone rounds out the list. Arkansas River Rock fills decorative beds, borders and dry creek beds, and 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel covers walkways, play areas and dog runs.

Soil and mulch finish the job. Top Soil grades lawns and preps beds, and Fill Dirt raises low ground and builds a pad up out of the wet before a base course goes on.

Delivery Across Craighead County

Order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout, and you pick your delivery date there.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile on site. Have the drop spot clear and reachable, with room for the truck to pull in and out.

Delivery covers Jonesboro, Brookland, Bono, Bay, Lake City, Monette, Caraway, Cash and Black Oak. Ground conditions change across those towns, so the material that suits a ridge property may not suit a Delta one.

Ground Conditions Across Craighead County

Craighead County spans two ground regions, and water behaves differently in each. In the Mississippi Alluvial Plain around Bono, Bay, Lake City and Monette, the ground is deep alluvial silt loam, silty clay and heavy clay.

That Delta ground is flat, with a high water table and clay that barely takes water. Rain stands where it falls, and field ditches and bayous drain slowly.

On that ground, drainage matters as much as base depth. A fines-bearing base over saturated clay holds water, so a clean washed layer under the base gives it somewhere to go.

On Crowley's Ridge at Jonesboro and Brookland, the ground is deep wind-blown loess over Tertiary sand, gravel and clay, standing well above the Delta floor. Water runs off the ridge instead of standing.

The loess cuts cleanly but slumps and gullies wherever it is left bare. Steep cuts, drive banks and hollows on the ridge erode fast, which is why ridge cuts, ditches and outlets get armored.

Work runs all year in both zones. 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. No statewide frost figure is published, and each Arkansas jurisdiction sets its own frost line for exterior footings.

Wet clay is the winter problem here, not cold.

Choosing the Right Material

Greene County shares Craighead County's ground regions, spanning the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and Crowley's Ridge, so the ground is the same and the material choices carry over.

Mississippi County sits entirely in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. Its ground is the same deep alluvial silt loam, silty clay and heavy clay, so drainage and base depth matter there for the same reasons.

Lawrence County spans the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and the Ozark Plateaus, so part of it sits on ground that Craighead County does not have. Where the Ozark Plateaus begin, the ground turns to rock and karst rather than deep clay.

That difference changes the base choice. On clay, water needs a place to go and a washed layer earns its place.

On rock, water already moves, so the base is about a level, compacted surface.

Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Craighead County

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers SB-2 base, washed stone, sand, topsoil and fill for drives, pads, drainage, patios and lawns across Craighead County. Order online, size your load by the ton or yard, and pick a delivery date that fits your project.