Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Elkins, AR

For gravel and aggregate delivery in Elkins, AR, Arkansas Rock Supply sells bulk material by the ton and drops it at your site. Each product page has a calculator so you can size the load before you order.

SB-2 base is the Arkansas base material for drives, pads and pipe bedding. This is cherty upland country, so a pad that starts with proper fill and base holds up far better than one built straight on the clay.

Delivery to Elkins and the Surrounding Area

You order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Choose a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load in one pile at your address.

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers across Elkins and Washington County, including Fayetteville, Springdale, Farmington, Prairie Grove and West Fork. Bulk loads go to driveways, building pads and job sites throughout the area.

Have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives. The driver tips the material where the truck can safely reach, and you work it from there.

Materials for Elkins Projects

Raising grade is where most Elkins jobs start, and that means fill and sub-base before anything else goes down. Low ground and wet spots get built up with fill dirt, then capped with a compacted base that will carry a slab, a shed or a drive.

For a driveway, start with Fill Dirt to bring the grade up, then cap it with SB-2 Base. SB-2 is a dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in, so it locks up under a roller.

Engineers and city standards often write the same material as Class 7 base.

For a patio or paver area, bed the stone on Screenings, the Arkansas name for crusher fines. Screenings give a tight, level surface for pavers, flagstone and brick, and they fill the joints between them.

For drainage, #57 Limestone is the washed workhorse size. It goes into French drains, foundation and pipe drainage, and it makes a clean top over a compacted base.

3/4" Crushed Stone does the same work in drainage beds and on construction entrances.

Ground and Conditions in Elkins

Across the Ozark Plateaus the ground is cherty, acid clay loam over limestone and dolostone, with chert gravel right through the profile. On side slopes, rock and rubble sit close to the surface, which makes cutting a pad slow work.

Water here leaves through the rock rather than across it. Sinkholes, fractured limestone and losing streams take runoff underground fast, while the residual clay filling the joints holds water at the surface after a long rain.

That combination is why an under-built base fails. A pad needs fill brought up to grade and a base course that compacts, because the clay underneath will hold water and move.

Steep hollow slopes and flashy streams scour drive shoulders and culvert outlets when heavy spring rain hits. Rip rap armors banks, slopes and culvert outlets where moving water is the problem.

Base, drive and patio work runs almost all year here. Winter cold snaps and a wet spring are the interruptions, and the late-summer dry spell is the easiest time to get real compaction.

Order SB-2 Base and Fill for Your Elkins Job

SB-2 base is the Arkansas material that carries drives, pads and pipe bedding, and fill dirt gets the grade up before it goes down. Order online by the ton or the yard, size the load on the product page, and pick your delivery date at checkout.