Gravel, Stone and Soil for Union County, MS

Mississippi Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Union County, MS, and the working season here runs nearly year round. The ground most likely to be too wet to compact is the heavy Flatwoods clay belt in this part of the state.

610 limestone is the base most of that work starts from: a compacting crushed stone that packs down and holds a pad, a drive or a parking area.

Materials Delivered in Union County

It goes down under driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads, and patio sub-base. County roads here follow the state aid spec book, which repeats the same Section 703 sizes.

Drainage stone covers the rest of the range. #89 Crushed Stone is small washed stone for tight bedding and joints, and #4 Crushed Stone handles trench bottoms and construction entrances.

For bank work and culvert outlets, RipRap protects slopes and edges. Masonry Sand beds brick and block work and fills paver joints, and Fill Dirt raises grade before a base course goes down.

Choosing the Right Material

Ground in this part of the state is the most varied in Mississippi. Reddish sandy marl soils sit on the Pontotoc Ridge, with a narrow belt of heavy, poorly drained Flatwoods clay and loamy hill soils over Cretaceous sands toward the Tombigbee.

Pontotoc County shares this ground region, so the material choices there track the same logic. Lee County sits on the Black Prairie, where dark, fine clay soils shrink and crack when dry and turn to grease after rain.

That difference changes the base decision. On prairie clay, drainage stone matters as much as compacting base, because water has nowhere to go.

On the loamy ridges and hill soils here, a compacted 610 limestone base does the work.

Lafayette County sits on the North Central Hills, with sand, silt and clay beds capped with loess on its western side. Soils there are loamy on the ridges and clayey in the hollows, with ironstone and ferruginous gravel showing up in places.

Ground Conditions Across Union County

A thin base fails differently depending on which ground it sits on. On the Flatwoods clay belt, water sits and the subgrade stays soft long after a rain, so the base rock works down into the mud instead of staying put.

On the steep hill slopes and dissected valley walls, runoff cuts fast. Bank scour on the feeder streams and washouts where drives cross a draw are the common results.

The fix follows the ground. Sites on slow-draining clay need open, free-draining stone worked in below the base so water has a path out.

Sloped sites need the surface shaped so runoff leaves rather than pools.

Timing matters too. Work runs nearly year round here, but the Flatwoods clay belt is the ground most likely to be too wet to compact in late winter.

Freezes in this corner of the state are short and shallow by national standards, so frost is not the driver. Shrink-swell clay, standing water and drainage are.

Delivery Across Union County

Ordering runs through the site. You pick the material, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, size the load with the calculator on the product page, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck then tips the load on site in one pile. Delivery covers New Albany, Myrtle, Blue Springs and Etta, along with the rest of the county.

Order Gravel and Stone for Union County

Start with the material that fits the job, then size the load. The calculator on each product page gives you a quantity in tons or yards, and you pick a delivery date at checkout.

Order 610 limestone, drainage stone, sand or topsoil for delivery in Union County.