Bulk Aggregate Delivery Across Yell County, AR
Arkansas Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Yell County, AR. Work here runs nearly all year, and a wet late winter or spring is the real limit on a gravel job.
If you are building a drive or a pad, start with SB-2 base.
Yell County spans two kinds of ground. The Arkansas River Valley side covers Dardanelle, Danville, Ola and Havana.
The Ouachita Mountains side covers Rover, Bluffton, Briggsville and Gravelly.
Materials Delivered in Yell 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.
Quarries and yards across the state sell it under that name.
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 sold as SB-2, and Class 8 is the 1 inch version. Section 302 covers select material used as a foundation course underneath.
Cities and counties write Class 7 into their own street, sidewalk and parking standards. When you are working to a written spec, ask for Class 7 and you get the same material under the name an engineer expects.
People order SB-2 for driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads, and pipe bedding. It is the base that carries the load.
Washed sand and mason sand cover bedding and leveling under slabs, pools, brick and block. Washed Sand comes out of the Arkansas and White river sand operations.
Mason Sand is the finer one for joints and play areas.
Fill dirt raises low ground and builds a pad up out of the wet before a base course goes on. Fill Dirt goes down first, then SB-2 on top.
Choosing the Right Material
Perry County and Scott County both sit in the Ouachita Mountains region. Scott County ground is stony, gravelly loam over folded and faulted sandstone, shale, chert and novaculite, with rock fragments through the profile.
That is the same ground family as the Ouachita Mountains side of Yell County, so the base and drainage choice does not change. Shallow soils on the long east-west ridges and deeper, more workable ground in the valleys between them apply to both.
Perry County spans the Ouachita Mountains and the Arkansas River Valley, so it shares ground with both sides of Yell County. Pope County sits in the Arkansas River Valley and spans into the Boston Mountains.
Where the ground is deep silt loam and clay on river bottoms and terraces, a fines-bearing base like SB-2 is the right call. Where the ground is stony and drains well, a clean washed stone works for drainage while SB-2 still carries the surface.
Ground Conditions Across Yell County
On the Arkansas River Valley side, you have deep silt loam and clay on the bottoms and terraces, with shale and sandstone uplands between them. The water table sits high near the river.
Clay subsoils let go of water slowly, and backwater from the Arkansas River and Lake Dardanelle follows heavy rain upstream. A thin base over wet clay softens and pumps under traffic all winter.
On the Ouachita Mountains side, tilted shale and chert beds shed water off the ridges fast and funnel it into narrow valleys. Drives and pads there take concentrated flow arriving from above rather than the rain that lands on them.
Erosion follows the same split. Valley ground sees bank scour and flood flow along the river and its lakes, plus sheet erosion off bare clay in spring thunderstorms.
Mountain ground sees fast ridge runoff and steep drive cuts that lose surfacing after a big storm.
Rip rap armors banks, slopes, culvert outlets and ditch checks where moving water is the problem. On the mountain side, a clean washed stone under the surface keeps water from sitting against the base.
Frost is shallow here. No statewide figure is published, and the Arkansas residential code has each jurisdiction set the frost line and require exterior footings at least 12 inches below undisturbed ground.
Wet ground does more damage to a base than cold does.
Delivery Across Yell County
You order online and a dump truck tips the load on site. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.
Delivery covers Dardanelle, Danville, Ola, Havana, Belleville, Plainview, Rover, Bluffton, Briggsville and Gravelly. Pick your delivery date at checkout.
Order SB-2 Base and Bulk Aggregate for Yell County
Start with the material that matches the job, then size the load. Each product page has a calculator, and quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard.
Pick your delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load on site. Order SB-2 base, washed stone, sand or topsoil for your Yell County project today.