Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Decatur, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Decatur, IL, with bulk loads of CA-6, washed stone, sand, soil and decorative rock dropped at your site. If you are building a drive, a parking pad or a shed base, CA-6 is the material to start with.

This is the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, where deep dark silt loam sits over dense clay and water stands instead of running off. That shapes what you order and how you build with it.

Materials for Decatur Projects

Base and driveway surfacing is where most Decatur projects begin, and CA-6 is the material that carries them. CA-6, also called road base or 3/4 dense grade, is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

The fines let it compact into a firm, load-bearing surface.

Use CA-6 under a new driveway, a parking pad, a garage floor or a shed base, and for trench backfill. When you are surfacing an existing drive or topping a compacted base, Driveway Gravel gives you the finish layer.

Walkway Gravel suits paths and garden walks that need a finer, walkable surface.

Clean washed stone handles everything drainage related. CA-7 is a 1 inch clean stone with no fines, and CA-11 is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone sold alongside it.

Both bed pipe, fill drainage trenches and sit under concrete flatwork.

• CA-7 for bedding under pipe, French drains and drainage trenches.
• 3/4" Crushed Stone for the same drainage and concrete work at a smaller size.
• CA-16 Chips for permeable paver bedding and topping a compacted base.

Sand and soil round out a typical order. Torpedo sand is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding, while mason sand is the fine clean sand for mortar, paver joints and sandboxes.

Top Soil covers lawns, grading and bed prep, and Garden Soil fills raised beds and vegetable plots. For decorative work, Natural Pea Gravel, river gravel and large river rock handle walkways, beds, borders and dry creek beds.

Ground and Conditions in Decatur

Start with where the water goes. This part of Illinois has dense clay subsoil under the silt loam and almost no natural fall, so rain and snowmelt stand on the surface rather than draining away.

That is why so much of the farmland around here is tile drained.

For a driveway or pad, that means drainage is a design decision, not an afterthought. A clean washed stone layer lets water move; CA-6 gives you the compacted surface on top.

Bare silt loam also erodes. Sheet erosion takes topsoil off exposed ground, and runoff that concentrates cuts gullies in yards and fields.

Seeding or surfacing bare areas early limits how much soil moves.

Work here runs from the spring thaw into late fall. The ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through the winter, so timing a base or paver job matters.

Frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring across central and eastern Illinois.

Delivery to Decatur and the Surrounding Area

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 to size the load.

A dump truck then tips the material on site in one pile.

Decatur sits in Macon County, and delivery covers the surrounding communities, including Mount Zion, Forsyth, Maroa, Warrensburg and Macon. Bulk loads are heavy, so have the drop area clear and reachable before the truck arrives.

CA-6, washed stone, sand, topsoil and decorative rock all arrive the same way: tipped where you want the pile, ready for you to move and place.

Order Base, Stone and Soil for Your Decatur Project

Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, washed stone, sand, topsoil and decorative rock to driveways, parking pads, shed bases, drainage work, lawns and garden beds across Decatur and Macon County. Choose your material, set the quantity by the ton or yard, and schedule a delivery date at checkout.

Place your order online and get your material on site.