Order SB-2 Base and Crushed Stone in Mississippi County, AR
Arkansas Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Mississippi County, AR. If you are building a drive, a pad or a drainage run on Delta ground, the material to start with is SB-2 base.
SB-2 is the dense graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone Arkansas yards sell for drives, parking pads, shed pads and pipe bedding. The fines stay in the mix so it locks up under a roller.
Delivery across Mississippi County
You order online. Pick the material, set the quantity by the ton or by the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout.
A dump truck then tips the load on your site.
Each product page carries a calculator if you need help sizing a load. Coverage runs across the county, including Blytheville, Osceola, Manila, Leachville, Wilson, Luxora, Joiner, Etowah, Dyess and Frenchmans Bayou.
Bulk delivery means one pile dropped where the truck can reach. Plan your access before the date you pick, because a loaded truck on wet Delta clay will rut a soft drive.
Materials delivered in Mississippi County
SB-2 base is the standard Arkansas base material, and cities and counties write Class 7 into their own street, sidewalk and parking standards. When you are working to a written spec, Class 7 base is the name on the sheet and SB-2 is the same stone.
Below the base sizes, the smaller washed stone covers tight work. Use Drain Rock for French drains, dry wells and downspout runs, and #67 Stone for drainage and concrete work one size down from #57.
For drives and pads where a finer dense graded material that binds and compacts is wanted, Crusher Run is the option, though Arkansas usually reaches for SB-2 first. Class 8 base is the 1 inch minus version of the same dense graded stone.
Ground conditions across Mississippi County
Mississippi 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, with sandier natural levee ridges and older terraces mixed in.
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.
For a drive or a pad, that means the base has to carry the load over soft, saturated ground rather than sit on firm subgrade. A fines-bearing base like SB-2 binds and compacts into a surface that sheds water instead of sponging it up.
Drainage work matters here for the same reason. Washed stone with no fines, such as #57 or 3/4 inch clean, gives water a path through the ground instead of letting it pool against a foundation or under a slab.
Erosion shows up as sheet erosion off bare cropland silt, ditch and bayou bank sloughing, and river bank caving. Rip rap armors banks, slopes, culvert outlets and ditch checks where moving water is cutting.
Work runs all year. 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 winter problem is saturated clay, not frost.
A loaded truck will rut a soft drive deeply with no frost involved at all.
Choosing the right material
Craighead and Poinsett counties both span more than one ground region, taking in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and Crowley's Ridge. Crittenden County sits on the alluvial plain, the same deep silt loam, silty clay and heavy clay found here.
Where the ground is the alluvial plain, the base and drainage choice is the same as it is in Mississippi County: a dense graded base that compacts, and washed stone where water needs to move. On Crowley's Ridge the ground changes to a different material.
Match the stone to the job. A compacted base under a drive or pad takes SB-2 or Class 7.
Open drainage takes a washed size with no fines, such as #57, 3/4 inch clean or drain rock. Bedding and joints take screenings or sand.
Decorative work takes rounded stone. River gravel and large river rock suit beds, borders, dry creek beds and splash pads, where a washed, rounded look is wanted rather than a compacted surface.
Order bulk aggregate for your Mississippi County project
Arkansas Rock Supply delivers SB-2 base, washed stone, sand, topsoil and decorative rock across Mississippi County, from Blytheville and Osceola to Manila, Leachville, Wilson, Luxora, Joiner, Etowah, Dyess and Frenchmans Bayou.
Choose your material, set the quantity by the ton or the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Order your load online and get your project started.