Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Sunflower, MS

Mississippi Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Sunflower, MS, and 610 limestone is the base this part of the Delta is built on. You will hear it called 610, crushed limestone base or crushed stone base.

It goes under driveways, parking pads, shed pads and patios. Sunflower sits in Sunflower County, where the ground is flat and the clay holds water.

Delivery to Sunflower and the Surrounding Area

Ordering is done online. You pick the material, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator for sizing the load.

Then you pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck brings the load to your site in Sunflower and tips it in one pile.

Bulk delivery covers Sunflower County, including Indianola, Ruleville, Drew, Moorhead and Inverness. The truck tips the material where it lands.

From there it is yours to move.

Have the site reachable by a loaded truck before the delivery date. Soft ground after rain is the usual reason a truck cannot get in.

Materials for Sunflower Projects

The work in this county often starts below grade. Low spots get filled, pads get raised, and a base course goes down on top of that.

Fill and Sub-Base

Fill Dirt raises grade and fills low spots. It builds up a pad before any base course goes down.

610 Limestone is the compacting base for drives, parking pads and building pads. It is a crushed stone course gradation.

Clay Gravel is pit gravel with clay and fines that bind and pack. It has long been a drive and farm-road surface over soft ground.

Drives and Drainage

Driveway Gravel surfaces a drive or tops a compacted base. #57 Limestone is clean, free-draining stone for French drains and foundation drains.

#67 Stone is one size down from 57 for drainage and concrete work. #8 Crushed Stone suits fine drainage, pipe bedding and paver joints.

RipRap armours banks, culvert outlets and pond edges. Drain Rock handles French drains, drywells and downspout runs.

Pads, Paths and Beds

Stone Screenings bed pavers and flagstone and fill joints. Walkway Gravel gives paths a finer, walkable surface than drive gravel.

Garden Soil builds raised beds and planting areas. Top Soil prepares lawns and beds and covers tight clay.

Natural Pea Gravel is rounded chert washed out of the pit gravels. River Rock fills decorative beds and borders.

Ground and Conditions in Sunflower

Delta ground is deep alluvial silt, silt loam and heavy clay, laid down by the rivers over sand and gravel that sit tens of feet down. The clay at the surface is what you build on.

Backswamp ground runs gray to black. It swells when it is wet and cracks when it dries, and that movement is what breaks an under-built base.

The land here is flat with almost no fall, and the tight clay subsoil takes water slowly. Water stands rather than runs off.

Floodwater cuts at drive edges and culvert outlets, and banks cave where flow crosses them. Sheet flow moves across flat fields in heavy rain.

So a drive here wants a raised, crowned base rather than a deeper one. Building up above the standing water does more than digging down into it.

Work runs nearly year round. 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 wets and dries is.

Questions About Ordering in Sunflower

What is the best base under pavers in Sunflower?

Start with a compacted base of 610 limestone over fill where the grade needs raising. Bed the pavers in stone screenings and work screenings into the joints.

On the heavy clay here, the base has to sit above the ground and drain, because water that stands in the subgrade will move the pavers as the clay wets and dries.

Do you supply contractors working in Sunflower?

Yes. Contractors and homeowners order the same way, online, with quantities by the ton or by the yard.

Each product page has a calculator for sizing a load, and you choose a delivery date at checkout. Bulk delivery covers Sunflower and the rest of Sunflower County, including Indianola, Ruleville, Drew, Moorhead and Inverness.

Order 610 Limestone and Base Material in Sunflower

610 limestone is the base for drives, pads and parking areas across Sunflower and Sunflower County. Fill dirt raises the grade and 610 limestone goes on top as the compacting course.

Order online by the ton or by the yard, size the load with the calculator, and pick your delivery date at checkout.