Gravel, Stone and Soil for Hinds County, MS

Mississippi Rock Supply brings gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Hinds County, MS to your driveway, pad or drain. Start with 610 limestone.

Water is the driver here. On this ground, water that gets under a slab or a drive through an open joint or a downspout causes more damage than a wet season does.

Delivery across Hinds County

Order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you check out.

Pick your delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the material on site.

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers across the county, including Jackson, Clinton, Byram, Raymond, Terry, Utica, Bolton and Edwards. Have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives.

If a gate is narrow or a drive is soft, say so in the delivery details at checkout. The truck needs room to reach the spot and turn around.

Bulk loads are heavy, and soft ground after rain will not carry them.

Materials delivered in Hinds County

Match the material to the job. A driveway, a patio base and a French drain each want something different.

610 limestone carries the most weight for base work. It is a crushed limestone base specified locally as Size No.

610, and Section 304 pays for that work as Size Crushed Stone Base. County roads follow the same Section 703 sizes.

Clay gravel is the pit-run material for a drive or a farm road where you want a graded, compacting surface over soft ground. It holds together because of the clay and fines in it, so it is not a drainage stone.

For drainage, #57 limestone and #67 stone are the clean, open sizes. #8 crushed stone and stone screenings handle finer work: pipe bedding, paver joints and bedding under flagstone.

Natural Pea Gravel is a different animal. Mississippi Natural Pea Gravel is rounded chert washed out of the pit gravels, not crushed stone, and it suits walkways, play areas and decorative beds.

Natural Pea Gravel and River Rock cover the decorative side, with Large River Rock for dry creek beds and heavier bank work.

Sand and soil round out an order. Masonry Sand goes into brick and block work and paver joints.

Washed Sand beds and levels under slabs and pavers. Fill Dirt raises grade and builds up a pad before a base course goes down.

Ground conditions across Hinds County

Hinds County sits in the Jackson Prairie and the Yazoo Clay belt. The ground is alkaline, calcareous clay over the Yazoo Clay, the state's best known expansive clay.

It lifts when it takes up water and pulls down as it dries.

That movement is almost never even across a slab or a drive. One side heaves while the other settles, and an under-built base shows it first.

Keeping soil moisture steady is the whole job.

Grading water away and keeping it away is the first move. A downspout, a leaking line or an open joint that lets water under pavement does more harm than a wet season does.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Clay that has been cut or loaded slumps and fails.

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

Time the heavy work around that.

Winter is mild. Nothing a Mississippi winter does compares with what the clay does between a wet spring and a dry August.

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.

Choosing the right material

Ground changes as you cross into neighbouring counties, and the base choice changes with it. Rankin County shares the Jackson Prairie and the Yazoo Clay belt, so the ground is the same there.

The same expansive clay, the same need to keep water off a base.

Copiah County sits in the Southwest Loess Hills and Gravel Country. Loess thins eastward over sandy and gravelly Citronelle beds, so soils run from silty on the ridges to sandy and gravel-bearing on the slopes and in the stream bottoms.

That is a different problem. Sandy, gravel-bearing ground drains where Hinds County clay holds water, so a drain there needs less help moving water away, and a compacting base matters less than it does over clay.

Claiborne County sits in the Loess Bluffs and Brown Loam. Wind-laid loess runs more than fifty feet thick on the bluff line and weathers down to brown loam.

For a patio in Hinds County, start with 610 limestone as the compacting base, then bed the pavers in stone screenings or masonry sand. Over clay, the base and the drainage matter more than the surface you see.

Order 610 limestone and base material for Hinds County

610 limestone is the base to start with across Hinds County. Add clean drainage stone, sand, soil or decorative rock to the same order.