Fill and Base Material Delivered in Horatio, AR

If you are raising a low spot or building a pad, gravel and aggregate delivery in Horatio, AR starts with the right fill and the right base. Arkansas Rock Supply sells bulk material by the ton, delivered to your site.

For most pads, the base layer is SB-2 base, the dense graded crushed stone Arkansas crews compact under drives and slabs. Get the fill and the base right and everything above them holds.

Delivery to Horatio and the Surrounding Area

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

A dump truck arrives and tips the load in one pile on your site. From there it is your job to move and place the material where the work is.

Horatio sits in Sevier County, and delivery covers the town and the surrounding area. We also run loads to De Queen, Lockesburg and Gillham.

If your job is on a county road outside town, that is fine as long as a truck can reach the spot.

Materials for Horatio Projects

This page leads with fill and sub-base, because that is where a lot of ground here starts. Low lots and soft spots need grade built up before anything else goes down.

For raising grade or building a pad up out of the wet, start with Fill Dirt. It is bulk fill for bringing low ground up to level.

Once the pad is built, SB-2 Base goes on top as the compacted layer under a drive, a parking pad or a building slab.

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. When a written spec calls for Class 7 base, that is the same material under the name engineers use.

For a driveway, Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted base. For a patio or walkway, Walkway Gravel gives a finer, walkable surface than a drive needs.

Under pavers and flagstone, Screenings bed the units and fill the joints. Screenings are the Arkansas trade name for crusher fines, and they set tight for a firm walking surface.

For drainage, #57 Limestone is the washed size for French drains, foundation drains and pipe bedding. RipRap armors banks, slopes and culvert outlets where water moves fast.

Ground and Conditions in Horatio

Across the West Gulf Coastal Plain, the ground is deep, acid sandy loam and sandy clay over unconsolidated sand, gravel and clay. Sandy topsoil sits on a dense clay subsoil, so water soaks in, perches, then runs sideways.

Flat ground and slow bayous keep the water table high for days after heavy rain. That is the reason a pad needs fill under it before a base course goes on.

Build the base straight onto wet clay and it will not hold.

Bare sand also cuts and gullies fast under intense Gulf rainfall. Thunderstorm runoff scours drive shoulders and pipe outlets, so drainage stone at the outlet matters as much as the base.

Work runs all year here. Winter and spring rain on sandy clay is the limit, and a long wet spell keeps hauling ground soft.

Freezes are short and shallow across south Arkansas, and an ice storm matters far more than frost depth ever will. Any footing depth is set by the local building official, so check before you pour.

Order Fill and SB-2 Base for Your Horatio Job

For building a pad up out of wet ground or laying a drive, the order starts with fill and SB-2 base. Arkansas Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Horatio and Sevier County.

Order online by the ton and pick your delivery date.