Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Florence, MS

If you are planning gravel and aggregate delivery in Florence, MS, the job in front of you usually decides the material. A driveway, a shed pad or a patio base in Rankin County almost always starts with 610 limestone, the crushed stone base Mississippi yards sell by that name.

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers that base, plus the washed stone, sand, soil and decorative rock that finish a job, straight to your site.

Materials for Florence Projects

Base and driveway surfacing is where most ground work here begins, and 610 limestone leads it. Size No.

Where the ground is soft and you want a surface that binds, clay gravel is the older Mississippi answer. It is pit-run gravel with enough clay and fines to pack down, which is why it has long been the material for drives and farm roads.

If you are topping a drive rather than building the base under it, Driveway Gravel gives you a clean surface layer. For a walkway or garden path that needs a finer, more walkable finish than drive gravel, Walkway Gravel is the one to use.

Drainage work pulls from the washed stone sizes. #57 Limestone is the standard for French drains and foundation drains because it is clean and free-draining, and #67 Stone does the same work one size down.

For tighter work, #8 crushed stone handles fine drainage, pipe bedding and paver joints, while #89 crushed stone goes into tight bedding and narrow joints. Where you need a large, open stone for a trench bottom or a construction entrance, #4 crushed stone fits that job.

Sand covers both masonry and bedding work. Masonry sand, sold here as mason sand, is the material for brick and block work, paver joints and play areas.

Washed Sand is the clean choice for bedding and levelling under slabs and pavers.

Soil and mulch finish the job. Top Soil builds a workable layer for lawns and beds over tight clay, and Garden Soil fills raised beds and planting areas where the native ground will not drain.

Shredded mulch holds moisture in beds and keeps soil in place on slopes through heavy summer rain.

Decorative rock rounds out the list. Natural Pea Gravel is rounded chert washed out of the pit gravels, used on walkways, play areas and decorative beds.

River rock and large river rock go into decorative beds, borders, dry creek beds and heavier bank work. RipRap armours banks, culvert outlets and pond edges against erosion.

Ground and Conditions in Florence

Water is the whole conversation on this ground. Across the Jackson Prairie and the Yazoo Clay belt, the soil is alkaline, calcareous clay over the Yazoo Clay, an expansive clay that lifts when it takes up water and pulls down as it dries.

That movement is almost never even across a slab or a drive. The practical result is that keeping soil moisture steady matters more than any single material choice, because water that gets under a slab or pavement through an open joint, a downspout or a leaking line does more damage than a wet season does.

Grading water away and keeping it away is the first move on any base here. Erosion follows the same logic.

Cut or loaded clay slopes slump, and where sand and silt sit on top of the clay, water perches at the contact and slides start, with roadway edges dropping away after water gets underneath.

Work runs nearly year round in this part of the state. The clay is at its worst in a wet spell after a long dry summer, when it takes up water fastest.

Delivery to Florence and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by dump truck, and the truck tips the load in one pile on site. Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives, and keep the pile where you want the material worked from.

Ordering runs online. You choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load before checkout.

You pick your delivery date at checkout.

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers across Florence and Rankin County, including Pearl, Brandon, Flowood, Richland and Pelahatchie.

Order Base, Stone and Sand for Your Florence Project

For building a driveway, setting a pad, running drainage or dressing a bed, the material for the job is here. Choose 610 limestone, washed stone, sand, soil or decorative rock, size your load, and set a delivery date.

Order online and Mississippi Rock Supply will bring it to your site in Florence.