Gravel, Stone and Soil for Clay County, MS

Mississippi Rock Supply sells gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Clay County, MS, and 610 limestone is the base most of it starts from. That crushed stone base is what local yards sell for drives, pads and parking areas.

This is The Black Prairie, where dark clay ground takes water slowly and softens under a thin layer of stone. The material you put down matters as much as how you build on it.

Materials delivered in Clay County

610 limestone, also called 610 or crushed limestone base, is a graded crushed stone course.

610 among the crushed stone course gradations, so it is specified here as a crushed stone base. Order it for driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads and patio sub-base.

Clay gravel is pit-run gravel with enough clay and fines in it to bind and pack. It is a long-standing drive and farm-road material where a graded, compacting surface is wanted over soft ground.

Drainage work on this ground usually calls for Drain Rock in French drains, foundation drains, drywells and downspout runs. Where a bank or culvert outlet needs holding, RipRap is the coarse stone for that job.

For planting, Top Soil builds a workable layer over tight clay, and Garden Soil suits raised beds where the native ground will not drain. Fill Dirt raises grade or fills a low spot before a base course goes down.

Choosing the right material

Clay County sits on The Black Prairie, the same ground region as Monroe County and Chickasaw County. Dark, fine clay formed on Cretaceous chalk and marl, shrinking and cracking when dry and swelling when wet.

There is no difference in the ground to choose around between these counties.

Webster County is different. That county sits on The North Central Hills, where sands, silts and clay beds of the older coastal plain are capped with loess and soils are loamy on the ridges and clayey in the hollows.

On loamy ridge ground, water moves down and away more readily. Here on prairie clay it does not, and a base course has to account for water that stays put.

Ground conditions across Clay County

Across The Black Prairie the ground is flat to gently undulating clay that takes water very slowly. Water stands, the clay softens, and a thin base simply disappears into it.

That is the failure a shallow layer of stone shows here, so separation and base depth carry more weight than they would on sandy ground. Clay that turns to grease after rain also means timing matters when you compact.

Erosion on this ground shows as slow sheet flow and rutting rather than gullying. Low-gradient prairie streams slough at the banks, and clay slumps wherever a slope is cut, which is where riprap and drainage stone earn their place.

Work runs nearly year-round in this part of the state, but prairie clay can stay too wet to compact for weeks after a heavy winter rain. Movement in the ground comes from the clay taking up and giving off water, not from frost.

Mississippi leaves the frost line depth blank in the residential code table for each jurisdiction to fill in, and sets a minimum exterior footing depth of 12 inches.

Delivery across Clay County

Order online by the ton or by the yard, whichever suits how you are planning the job. Each product page has a calculator, and you size the load there before you check out.

Pick your delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Bulk delivery covers West Point, Pheba, Cedarbluff, Prairie and the surrounding county roads.

Order gravel, stone and soil in Clay County

Start with the quantity you need in tons or yards, then use the calculator on the product page to size the load. Mississippi Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, drainage stone, topsoil and fill across Clay County.

Place your order online and pick your delivery date at checkout.