Gravel, Stone and Soil for Lincoln County, AR

Arkansas Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Lincoln County, AR. Rain stands where it falls on Delta clay, so the ground under a drive or pad matters as much as the stone on top.

SB-2 base is the material that answers it.

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. Order it online and a dump truck tips it on site.

Delivery across Lincoln County

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

Delivery covers Star City, Gould, Grady and the rest of the county. Rural addresses and county-road properties are fine.

The truck needs room to reach the spot and turn around, so keep the approach clear.

Wet ground is the real constraint through winter and spring. Heavy clay holds water, and a loaded truck will rut a soft drive deeply with no frost involved.

Wait for drier ground if the approach is already soft.

Materials delivered in Lincoln County

Match the material to the job. A drive, a patio, a drain and a garden bed each want something different.

SB-2 base and Class 7

SB-2 base is the standard Arkansas base material. It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads, and pipe bedding.

The fines stay in the mix, so it binds and compacts instead of staying loose.

Table 303-1 sets the aggregate base course gradings as Class 1 through Class 8.

Class 7 is the 1 1/2 inch dense grading that quarries and yards across the state sell as SB-2, and Class 8 is the 1 inch version.

Cities and counties write Class 7 into their own street, sidewalk and parking standards. Ask for SB-2 base, or ask for Class 7 base when you are working to a written spec.

It is the same material under two names. Section 302 covers select material used as a foundation course underneath.

Crusher run is a finer dense-graded material that binds and compacts, for drives and pads where a tighter grading is wanted.

Ground conditions across Lincoln County

Lincoln County sits on the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. The ground is deep alluvial silt loam, silty clay and heavy clay, the buckshot and gumbo the Delta is known for.

Sandier natural levee ridges and older terraces break it up in places.

That clay barely takes water. The ground is flat, the water table is high, and rain stands where it falls.

Field ditches and bayous drain slowly, and backwater can hold water for days.

An under-built base fails on that ground. Water sits in the clay, works into the stone and pumps it loose.

SB-2 base with the fines left in sheds that water better than a clean stone, and a drainage layer of #57 limestone or 3/4 inch clean moves it away from a foundation or a low spot.

Erosion shows up as sheet wash off bare ground, ditch and bayou bank sloughing, and river bank caving. Rip rap armors a bank, a culvert outlet or a ditch check where water runs hard.

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

Winters are short and mild.

No statewide frost depth figure is published. The Arkansas residential code has each jurisdiction set the frost line and requires exterior footings at least 12 inches below undisturbed ground.

Across the Delta frost is shallow, and saturated clay is the winter problem.

Choosing the right material

Jefferson County sits on the same Mississippi Alluvial Plain ground as Lincoln County. The soil, the water table and the drainage behave the same way, so the base and drainage choices carry over.

The ground is the same.

Drew County and Cleveland County sit on the West Gulf Coastal Plain, which is a different ground. Deep, acid sandy loam and sandy clay over unconsolidated sand, gravel, clay, chalk and marl.

That sandier ground drains faster than Delta clay. Water moves through it instead of sitting, so a base there sheds water more readily and a drainage layer has less to carry away.

For a driveway or a parking pad, start with SB-2 base. For a patio or a walkway, screenings bed the pavers and fill the joints, and Natural Pea Gravel or walkway gravel gives a walkable surface.

For a French drain or a foundation drain, #57 limestone or drain rock.

Order SB-2 base and gravel for Lincoln County

SB-2 base is the material to know for a drive, a pad or a building site on Lincoln County ground. It is the standard Arkansas base, a dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone that locks up under a roller and sheds water off heavy Delta clay.

Order online, size the load by the ton or the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Arkansas Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone, sand, soil and mulch across Lincoln County.