Gravel, Stone and Soil for Rankin County, MS

Mississippi Rock Supply sells gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Rankin County, MS. Order online by the ton or by the yard and a dump truck brings it to your site.

Start with 610 limestone if you are building a drive, a parking pad or a shed pad. The ground here is alkaline clay over the Yazoo Clay, and it moves with the water.

Ground Conditions Across Rankin County

Across the Jackson Prairie and the Yazoo Clay belt, the ground is calcareous clay over 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 rises while the other sits, and the surface cracks along the line between them.

Water is the driver. Rain 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.

Grade water away and keep it away. That is the first move on any pad or drive here.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Cut or loaded clay slumps and slides, and sand or silt sitting on top of the clay lets water perch at the contact.

Roadway edges drop away once water gets underneath. Riprap on banks, culvert outlets and pond edges holds that ground in place.

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

Winters here are mild. Shrink-swell clay and standing water shape a base far more than cold does.

Materials Delivered in Rankin County

Materials fall into five families: base, washed stone, sand, soil and decorative stone. Each one suits a different job on this ground.

Base Materials

610 limestone is the compacting base Mississippi yards sell by that name. It is also called 610, crushed limestone base or crushed stone base.

Use 610 Limestone for driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads, and patio sub-base.

Clay gravel is pit-run gravel with enough clay and fines to bind and pack. It has been the ordinary drive and farm-road material in Mississippi for a long time.

Use Clay Gravel where you want a graded, compacting surface over soft ground. Say gravel, not crushed stone, because pit gravel here is chert rather than crushed rock.

Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted base. Fill Dirt raises grade and builds up a pad before a base course goes down.

Washed Stone

Washed stone is clean and free draining. It passes water instead of holding it, which is what you want around a foundation or under a drain.

Use #57 Limestone for French drains, foundation drains, concrete aggregate and drive surfacing.

#67 stone is one size down from 57, and #8 crushed stone is finer again. Use #67 Stone for drainage and concrete work, and #8 Crushed Stone for fine drainage, pipe bedding, paver joints and concrete aggregate.

Drain Rock handles French drains, foundation drains, drywells and downspout runs on ground that holds water.

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

Sand

Masonry sand, also called mason sand or mortar sand, is the sand for brick and block work and paver joints. Mississippi yards sell it as mason sand and white mason sand.

Use Masonry Sand for mortar work, paver joints and play sand.

Washed sand, also called river sand, is clean and fine. Use Washed Sand for bedding, levelling and fill under slabs and pavers.

Soil and Mulch

Topsoil, also called screened topsoil, prepares lawns and beds. Use Top Soil to build a workable layer over tight clay or washed-out ground.

Garden soil, also called garden mix, goes into raised beds and planting areas. Use Garden Soil over heavy clay where the native soil will not drain.

Use Shredded Mulch in beds and tree rings. It holds moisture and keeps soil in place on slopes through heavy summer rain.

Decorative Stone

Natural Pea Gravel, also called pea rock, is rounded chert washed out of the pit gravels. It is not crushed stone.

Use Natural Pea Gravel for walkways, play areas, drainage and decorative beds.

River rock, also called river gravel, is larger and rounded. Use River Rock for decorative beds, borders and dry creek beds, and Large River Rock for dry creek beds, drainage swales and bank work.

Delivery Across Rankin 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 size the load.

A dump truck then tips the material on site in one pile. The driver does not spread or place it, so pick a spot with room for the pile and clear access for the truck.

Bulk loads are heavy and the truck needs a firm, dry approach. Soft ground after a wet spell is the one thing that stops a drop.

Delivery covers Pearl, Brandon, Flowood, Richland, Florence and Pelahatchie, along with the rest of the county.

Choosing the Right Material

Scott County and Smith County sit on the same ground as Rankin County: alkaline, calcareous clay over the Yazoo Clay. The base and drainage choices there follow the same logic as here.

Simpson County is different. Its hill tops are sandy and gravelly Citronelle caps over Miocene clay and sand at depth.

That surface is often loose and free draining, while the ground a few feet down is tight. Water moves through the top and stops lower down.

On that ground a clean, free-draining stone does more of the work, because the surface already sheds water. On Rankin County clay, the base has to be built to carry load over ground that moves.

Order Gravel, Stone and Soil for Your Rankin County Project

Mississippi Rock Supply delivers 610 limestone, clay gravel, washed stone, sand, soil and decorative rock across Rankin County. Drives, parking pads, shed pads, foundation drains, banks and beds all start with the right material.