What is the difference between crushed stone and Natural Pea Gravel?

Crushed stone is angular and broken, so the pieces interlock and a compacted layer holds together. CA-6, CA-7 and CA-16 chips are all crushed limestone. Natural Pea Gravel is rounded 3/8 inch washed gravel that stays loose underfoot. That makes it a surface for walkways, play areas and beds, not a base for a driveway or a pad.

Should I order material by the ton or by the yard?

Both work, and the choice is yours at checkout. Order by the ton when you are working from a known weight, and by the yard when you are working from volume. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the load before you order. Pick a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on site.

Which stone is best for drainage in Calhoun County?

Use clean washed stone with no fines. CA-7, also called #57 stone or 1 inch clean stone, is washed clean and suits bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains. CA-11 is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone sold alongside it for bedding, drainage and concrete work. Fines-bearing material like CA-6 holds water instead of passing it.

Gravel, Soil and Stone for Calhoun County, IL

For gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Calhoun County, IL, Illinois Rock Supply sells bulk material by the ton. Calhoun County spans two ground regions, and both shape what a base needs.

On the loess uplands and the Mississippi border, water sheds fast on slopes and sits in the flats. In the Illinois River valley and the sand areas, ground takes water quickly and holds almost none.

CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, answers both.

Delivery across Calhoun County

Order online and the material arrives on a dump truck that tips the load in one pile. Choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard.

Each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load.

Pick a delivery date at checkout. Illinois Rock Supply delivers to Hardin, Kampsville, Hamburg, Batchtown, Brussels, Golden Eagle, Michael and Mozier.

A bulk delivery is one tipped pile, so plan where it lands.

Materials delivered in Calhoun County

CA-6 is the Illinois base material.

CA-6 is crushed limestone with the fines left in, used for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill. Illinois yards also sell the same material as Crusher Run, though CA-6 is the name to use here.

Rounded stone is a different family. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is washed 3/8 inch rounded gravel for walkways, play areas and fence post mix.

River Gravel and Large River Rock cover beds, borders, dry creek beds and downspout splash areas.

Ground conditions across Calhoun County

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall, a little longer than upstate. On the sandy ground in the Illinois River valley and the sand areas, the ground dries and works early in the spring.

Bottomland sites along the Mississippi and Illinois wait out spring high water.

On the loess uplands and the Mississippi border, water sheds fast on slopes and holds in the flats. The bottomlands behind the levees drain slowly and flood, and in the sinkhole country water disappears into the ground instead of running to a ditch.

That splits the drainage problem two ways. On the uplands and bottoms, water needs somewhere to go, which is a job for clean washed stone like CA-7 or CA-11.

In the sand areas, the problem is a base that washes and settles rather than one that stays wet.

Erosion follows the same split. Loess gullies and rills on steep bluffs and ravines, slumping on cut slopes, and bank scour along the Mississippi, Illinois and Kaskaskia.

In the sand areas, wind moves bare sand and water ruts loose sandy drives.

Cold winters bring repeated freeze and thaw, milder in the south of the region than in the north, and frost still lifts drives and walks each spring.

Frost depth is about 36 to 40 inches on the loess uplands and about 36 inches in the Illinois River valley and the sand areas; the local building department sets it.

Choosing the right material

Pike County sits in West Central Illinois, over deep loess and older Illinoian drift on rolling uplands, dissected bluffs and steep ravines along the Mississippi and Illinois, with limestone karst and thick silty alluvium on the American Bottom.

That is the same ground region Calhoun County's uplands and river border sit in, so the base and drainage choice there matches here.

Jersey County is Metro East and spans more than one zone, the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border plus the Illinois River valley and the sand areas. That is the same pair of ground regions Calhoun County spans, so the ground itself calls for the same materials.

Match the stone to the water. Where ground sheds fast and sits wet in the flats, put a compacted CA-6 base down and run clean stone for drainage.

Where sandy ground drains and settles, CA-6 still carries the surface, and clean stone handles the water.

Order bulk gravel and stone for Calhoun County

Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Calhoun County, from Hardin and Kampsville to Hamburg, Batchtown, Brussels, Golden Eagle, Michael and Mozier. Order by the ton or by the yard, size the load on the product page, and pick your delivery date at checkout.

Calhoun County, IL Gravel and Landscape Rock Delivery