Can I order material for a commercial or contractor job?

Yes. Mississippi Rock Supply sells bulk gravel, crushed stone, sand, topsoil and aggregates online, and commercial and contractor jobs order the same way as any other. Choose your material, set the quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck tips the load on site.

When is the best time of year to order base material in Humphreys County?

Work runs nearly year round across the Delta. The real limits are saturated ground in late winter and early spring, and heavy rain, when tight clay takes water slowly and the surface will not hold up. Outside those wet stretches the ground is workable, so timing comes down to when your site is dry enough to build on.

What is the difference between topsoil and fill dirt?

Top Soil is screened and built for growing, used for lawn and bed preparation and for building a workable layer over tight clay. Fill Dirt is for raising grade, filling low spots and building up a pad before a base course goes down. One feeds plants, the other moves levels.

Humphreys County, MS Aggregate and Rock Delivery

Mississippi Rock Supply brings gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Humphreys County, MS, ordered online and tipped on site by dump truck. Around Belzoni, Isola, Silver City and Louise, 610 limestone is the compacting base that drives and pads are built on.

The Delta ground here is deep alluvial silt, silt loam and heavy clay, so a drive needs a built-up, crowned base rather than a deeper one.

Materials Delivered in Humphreys County

610 Limestone, also called 610 or crushed limestone base, is the state's crushed stone course gradation for compacting base.

That same gradation carries driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads and patio sub-base. County roads follow the state aid spec book, which repeats the same Section 703 sizes.

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

Clean stone handles the water.

#67 Stone is one size down for drainage and concrete work.

#8 Crushed Stone covers fine drainage, pipe bedding and paver joints. #89 Crushed Stone is the small washed stone for tight bedding and joints.

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

For surfacing, Driveway Gravel tops a compacted base. Natural Pea Gravel is rounded chert washed out of the pit gravels, not crushed stone, and suits walkways, play areas and decorative beds.

RipRap armours banks, culvert outlets, pond edges and slopes.

Delivery Across Humphreys County

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load before you commit.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile on site. Bulk delivery reaches Belzoni, Isola, Silver City, Louise and the surrounding county roads.

Ground Conditions Across Humphreys County

Across the Delta, the ground is flat with almost no fall, and the subsoil is tight clay that takes water slowly. Water stands rather than runs off, so a thin base shows itself fast: the surface pumps, ruts and loses its shape.

The fix is a built-up, crowned base that sheds water at the edges instead of holding it. 610 limestone is the compacting base for that job, and it is specified locally as Size No.

610 under Subsection 703.04.

Where ground stays wet, a clean open stone such as #57 limestone or drain rock gives water somewhere to go. Backswamp ground is gray to black clay that swells wet and cracks dry, so the ground moves as it wets and dries.

Erosion follows the same flat ground. Sheet flow crosses fields, banks cave on the rivers and bayous, and floodwater cuts at drive edges and culvert outlets.

RipRap and large river rock protect those edges.

Work runs nearly year round here. The real limits are saturated ground in late winter and early spring, and heavy rain.

Freezes are short and shallow. Frost heave is not what breaks a Delta drive; the ground moving as saturated clay dries and wets again is.

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

Washington County shares the same Delta ground as Humphreys County, so the base and drainage choices carry across with no change.

Holmes County spans more than one zone, part Loess Bluffs and Brown Loam and part Delta. On its Delta side the ground matches what you work with here.

Yazoo County sits on the Loess Bluffs and Brown Loam, wind-laid loess that weathers to a silty brown loam. That ground is easy to dig and will stand in a vertical cut, then fail without warning once it is wet.

So the base choice differs. On silty loess, water moves through the soil rather than standing on it.

On Delta clay, water sits, and the base has to be built up and crowned to shed it.

Order Gravel and Rock for Humphreys County

Start with the calculator on any product page to size your load, then order by the ton or by the yard and pick your delivery date. Mississippi Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, clay gravel, clean stone, sand and topsoil across Humphreys County.

Place your order online and a dump truck will tip it on site.

Humphreys County, MS Gravel and Landscape Rock Delivery