Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Macon, MS

Gravel and aggregate delivery in Macon, MS runs nearly year round, but prairie clay can stay too wet to compact for weeks after a heavy winter rain. Mississippi Rock Supply delivers bulk material to Noxubee County, and 610 limestone is the base most drives and pads here start from.

Materials for Macon Projects

Base and driveway surfacing is the work this ground asks for first. Size No.

It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed pads and patio sub-base.

610 Limestone packs into a graded surface over soft ground. Where a drive crosses ground that stays wet, clay gravel brings enough clay and fines to bind and hold together.

It has been the ordinary farm-road surface in Mississippi for a long time.

On top of a compacted base, driveway gravel resurfaces an existing drive. For a path or garden walk that needs a finer surface than drive rock, walkway gravel finishes the job.

Washed stone handles water.

#67 stone does the same work one size down.

For tighter spots, #8 crushed stone beds pipe and fills paver joints. #89 crushed stone is a small washed stone for tight bedding.

Stone screenings bed pavers and flagstone and top a compacted base.

Sand and soil round out the list. Masonry sand serves brick and block work and paver joints.

Top soil builds a workable layer over tight clay, and garden soil fills raised beds where the native ground will not drain.

Decorative stone finishes beds and borders. Natural Pea Gravel is rounded chert washed out of the pit gravels, and river rock covers beds and dry creek beds.

RipRap armours banks, culvert outlets and pond edges.

Ground and Conditions in Macon

Across the Black Prairie, the ground is dark fine clay formed on chalk and marl. It shrinks and cracks open when dry, swells when wet, and turns to grease after rain.

Chalk sits close to the surface in places.

That clay takes water very slowly. On flat to gently undulating ground, water stands, the clay softens, and a thin base disappears into it.

Depth of base and a separation layer matter more here than they do on sandy ground.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Slow sheet flow and rutting show up before gullies do, and low-gradient prairie streams slough at the banks.

Any cut slope in this clay can slump.

Movement in this ground comes from the clay taking up and giving off water, not from frost. The frost line is shallow.

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.

Plan the work around the wet weeks. Prairie clay can sit too wet to compact for weeks after a heavy winter rain, so a delivery timed to a dry stretch gets a better result.

Delivery to Macon and the Surrounding Area

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers bulk material by dump truck. 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 if you need to size the load.

The truck tips the load in one pile on site. Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives, with room for the bed to raise and pull away.

Delivery covers Macon and Noxubee County, including Brooksville and Shuqualak. If your site sits off a county road, check that the access suits a loaded truck.

Order Base, Stone and Soil for Your Macon Project

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, clay gravel, washed stone, sand, topsoil and decorative rock to driveways, pads, drainage runs, beds and banks around Macon. Order online when you are ready, size the load on the product page, and set your delivery date at checkout.