What is the difference between crushed stone and Natural Pea Gravel?

Crushed stone is angular rock broken to a size, which is why it locks together and holds under a drive. Natural Pea Gravel is rounded chert washed out of the pit gravels, so it stays loose. That makes Natural Pea Gravel right for walkways, play areas and decorative beds, and crushed stone right for base and drainage work.

Should I order material by the ton or by the yard?

Both work, and either can be entered at checkout. Tons are the usual way to buy crushed stone and gravel, while sand, soil and mulch are often ordered by the yard. Use the calculator on the product page to size the load, then order in whichever unit you prefer.

Which stone is best for drainage in Holmes County?

It depends on the ground under the job. In the loess belt around Lexington and Goodman, water sheds fast and carries silt, so #57 Limestone or #8 Crushed Stone in a lined channel works well. On flat Delta clay near Tchula and Cruger, water stands, so clean, free-draining stone like Drain Rock keeps it moving.

Holmes County, MS Aggregate and Rock Delivery

Mississippi Rock Supply sells gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Holmes County, MS. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size a load before you order.

Start with 610 limestone, the compacting base Mississippi yards sell for drives and pads. Holmes County spans the Loess Bluffs and Brown Loam belt and the Delta, so ground changes fast from town to town.

Ground Conditions Across Holmes County

Work here runs nearly year round. Saturated ground in late winter and early spring and heavy rain are the real limits, not frozen ground.

Around Durant, Goodman, Lexington and Pickens, wind-laid loess weathers down to brown loam. It is silty and easy to dig, and it stands in a vertical cut until it gets wet.

On those bluffs, steep, dissected slopes shed rain fast and silty loess carries the soil with it. Getting water off a drive and into a lined channel matters more than base depth.

Gullying is the signature problem of the belt. Bare loess cuts into deep gullies in a single wet season, and slopes slump where the loess sits on clay.

Around Tchula and Cruger, deep alluvial silt, silt loam and heavy clay sit under flat ground with almost no fall. Backswamp ground is gray to black clay that swells wet and cracks dry.

Water stands there rather than running off, so a drive needs a built-up, crowned base rather than a deeper one. Sheet flow crosses flat fields, banks cave on the rivers and bayous, and floodwater cuts at drive edges and culvert outlets.

Frost is shallow here. 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.

Materials Delivered in Holmes County

610 limestone is the crushed limestone base, also called 610 or crushed stone base. Size No.

Use it under driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads and patio sub-base. 610 Limestone is the material to price first for any graded pad.

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

Clay Gravel suits that job.

Above the base sit the clean, free-draining stones. #57 Limestone handles French drains, foundation drains and drive surfacing, and Size No.

#67 Stone is one size down for drainage and concrete work. #8 Crushed Stone covers fine drainage, pipe bedding and paver joints, and #89 Crushed Stone is the small washed stone for tight bedding.

3/4" Crushed Stone works in drainage beds, drive surfacing and construction entrances.

Stone Screenings bed pavers and flagstone, fill joints and top a compacted base.

Masonry Sand, sold as mason sand or mortar sand, is for brick and block work and paver joints. Top Soil builds a workable layer over tight clay or washed-out ground.

Choosing the Right Material

Madison County sits on the Jackson Prairie and the Yazoo Clay belt, alkaline calcareous clay over expansive Yazoo Clay. That clay lifts when it takes up water and pulls down as it dries, and the movement is uneven across a slab or a drive.

Leflore and Humphreys counties share the Delta ground that part of Holmes County sits on. Deep alluvial silt, silt loam and heavy clay, with sand and gravel buried far below the surface.

So the honest split is this: toward Madison County the ground moves with moisture, and toward the Delta it holds water. Both push the same way on a base.

On expansive clay, a clean stone that drains keeps water from sitting under the surface. On flat Delta clay, a compacting base like 610 limestone or clay gravel carries a crowned surface that sheds water sideways.

Delivery Across Holmes County

You order online by the ton or by the yard, and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile. Quantities come from the calculator on each product page.

Coverage runs across the county, including Tchula, Durant, Goodman, Lexington, Pickens, Cruger and West. Pick a delivery date at checkout when you place the order.

Order Gravel, Stone and Soil for Holmes County Jobs

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand, soil and mulch across Holmes County, from Lexington and Durant to Tchula and Cruger. Sizing a load is quick with the calculator on each product page.

Choose your material, order by the ton or the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Your load arrives on site, ready to place.

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