610 Limestone, Sand and Gravel Delivery in DeSoto County, MS
Need gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in DeSoto County, MS for a drive, a pad or a drain? Mississippi Rock Supply sells it online by the ton, and 610 limestone is the base most of that work starts from.
DeSoto County spans two different ground regions, so the right material depends on where the truck is tipping. In the bluff belt around Southaven, Olive Branch, Horn Lake and Hernando, silty loess sheds water fast and cuts into gullies.
Delivery across DeSoto County
You order online and pick a quantity, either by the ton or by the yard. Each product page carries a calculator if you need help sizing the load.
Then you choose a delivery date at checkout.
A dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. That is the whole delivery.
We cover Southaven, Olive Branch, Horn Lake, Hernando, Walls, Lake Cormorant and Nesbit.
Materials delivered in DeSoto County
610 limestone is the compacting crushed stone base for this market. Size No.
It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads and patio sub-base.
Order it from our 610 Limestone page.
Clay gravel is pit-run material with enough clay and fines to bind and pack. It is a long-standing drive and farm-road surface over soft ground.
See Clay Gravel.
Ground conditions across DeSoto County
DeSoto County sits on two different ground regions, and each one treats a base differently. In the bluff belt, wind-laid loess runs more than fifty feet thick in places and weathers to brown loam.
It is silty, easy to dig, and it will stand in a vertical cut and then fail without warning once it is wet.
That makes water the main problem. Steep slopes shed rain fast into ravines, and the silty loess carries soil with it.
Moving water off a drive and into a lined channel matters more than how deep the base goes.
Out in the Delta, the ground is deep alluvial silt, silt loam and heavy clay over buried sand and gravel. It is flat, with almost no fall, and the tight clay subsoil takes water slowly.
Water stands rather than runs off.
There, a drive needs a built-up, crowned base rather than a deeper one. Backswamp ground is gray to black clay that swells wet and cracks dry, so the ground moves as it wets and dries.
Gullying is the signature erosion problem in the bluff belt. Bare loess cuts into deep gullies in a single wet season, and slopes slump where the loess sits on clay.
In the Delta, sheet flow crosses flat fields and floodwater cuts at drive edges and culvert outlets.
Base and paver work runs nearly year round in both zones. Wet spells in late winter and early spring are the main interruption.
Freezes are short and shallow, so frost is not what moves the ground here.
Choosing the right material
Tate County shares DeSoto County's ground region. It is the same wind-laid loess and brown loam belt, so the base and drainage choices are the same.
Marshall County is different ground. It sits on the North Central Hills, where sand, silt and clay beds of the older coastal plain are capped with loess on the western side.
Soils there are loamy on the ridges and clayey in the hollows, and ironstone and ferruginous gravel show up in places. That is ground that drains by falling away on the ridges, unlike the flat Delta ground in DeSoto County.
On loess, protect the slope and channel the water. On Delta clay, build the grade up and keep the surface crowned.
For a driveway, start with 610 Limestone or Clay Gravel. For a drain, use clean stone.
Order 610 limestone and aggregate in DeSoto County
610 limestone is the compacting base this part of Mississippi is built on, and it is the material to start with for drives, pads and patio sub-base. Mississippi Rock Supply sells it by the ton, alongside the drainage stone, sand, soil and decorative rock a DeSoto County job needs.
Order online and pick your delivery date.