Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Caledonia, IL

If you need gravel and aggregate delivery in Caledonia, IL, Illinois Rock Supply sells bulk material by the ton. Both contractors and homeowners order here, and the jobs range from a driveway refresh to a new garage pad.

CA-6, also called road base, is the dense graded crushed limestone most of that work starts from.

This part of Boone County sits on loamy prairie soils over dolomite, so the ground under a drive matters as much as the stone on top of it. You order online, pick a quantity, and a dump truck tips the load on site.

Materials for Caledonia Projects

Base and driveway surfacing anchor everything else. CA-6 leaves the fines in, which is what lets it knit together under a vehicle.

It goes down under driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases, and trench backfill.

If you are surfacing an existing drive or topping a compacted base, Driveway Gravel is the material to look at. Crusher Run is the same idea under a secondary name, crushed stone with the fines left in.

Washed stone is the other half of the picture. CA-7 is clean stone with no fines, and it beds pipe, fills drainage trenches and sits under concrete flatwork.

CA-11 is the 3/4 inch clean stone sold alongside it for the same jobs.

CA-16 Chips are the small 3/8 inch limestone chips for permeable paver bedding and for drainage around tanks. Lime Screenings are the crushed limestone fines that bed pavers and flagstone, and they backfill around pipe.

Sand splits two ways here. Torpedo sand, sold as Washed Sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding.

Mason Sand is finer and cleaner for brick and block mortar, paver joints, sandboxes and volleyball courts.

Soil and decorative round it out. Top Soil is screened Illinois prairie topsoil for lawns and bed prep, and Garden Soil fills raised beds and vegetable plots.

River Gravel and Large River Rock handle beds, borders and dry creek beds.

Ground and Conditions in Caledonia

Start with water, because that is what decides how a base performs. Across the Northern Illinois till plains and Rock River country, snowmelt and spring rain fall on ground that is still frozen and run across the surface instead of soaking in.

Tight till and a high water table hold that water on the flat ground. Where the ground is sandy, it drains almost too fast instead.

Both extremes push you toward the same answer: get the water moving somewhere, then build the base.

Erosion shows up as gully and sheet loss on steeper slopes and wind scouring on bare sand. A drive or pad that sheds water off its edges avoids most of that.

The working season runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little shorter than downstate. Frozen ground stops compaction, so timing a base course around the thaw matters.

Frost depth is about 42 inches across the northern counties, set by the local building department for footings.

Delivery to Caledonia and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by dump truck and is tipped in one pile on site. Before the truck reaches you, have a clear spot for the pile and a path wide enough for a truck to reach it.

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 help sizing the load.

Caledonia sits in Boone County, and deliveries cover Belvidere, Poplar Grove, Capron and Garden Prairie as well. Material is sold in Illinois only.

Order Base, Stone and Soil for Your Caledonia Job

Driveways, parking pads, drainage runs, raised beds and lawn prep all start with the right material under them. Illinois Rock Supply sells CA-6, washed stone, sand, soil and decorative rock in bulk for Caledonia and Boone County, delivered by the ton.

Order online and pick your delivery date.