Can I order material for a commercial or contractor job?

Yes. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand, topsoil and aggregates across Illinois, and orders are placed online the same way for a contractor job as for a residential one. You choose the material, set the quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

When is the best time of year to order base material in Edgar County?

Base, driveway and paver work 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 a saturated or frozen subsoil will not take a base course. Order once the ground has dried and before the first hard freeze.

What is the difference between topsoil and fill dirt?

Topsoil is screened prairie topsoil, dark and silty, and it goes on lawns, grading and bed prep where plants need to grow. Fill dirt is bulk fill for raising grade and building up a low spot before a CA-6 base course goes down. They do different jobs and are not interchangeable.

Gravel, Soil and Stone for Edgar County, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Edgar County, IL. Base, driveway and paver work here runs from the spring thaw into late fall, and the ground is slow to dry in a wet spring.

Plan the load around that window.

CA-6, also called road base, is the Illinois base material. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it goes under drives, parking pads, shed bases and trench backfill.

Materials Delivered in Edgar County

CA-6 is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

CA-6 is ordered for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill. It is the base course that goes down before a surface.

See CA-6.

Clean washed stone carries no fines, so it drains instead of compacting.

Torpedo sand is the coarse washed sand Illinois yards sell for concrete, leveling and bedding. Mason sand is finer and clean, for brick and block mortar, paver joints, sandboxes and volleyball courts.

Both are on the Washed Sand and Mason Sand pages.

For ground cover, Top Soil is screened prairie topsoil for lawns, grading and bed prep. Fill Dirt is bulk fill for raising grade before a CA-6 base course goes down.

Shredded Mulch holds moisture in beds and tree rings through an Illinois summer.

Rounded stone covers the decorative side. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel suits walkways, play areas and fence post mix.

River Gravel and Large River Rock go in beds, borders and dry creek beds.

Delivery Across Edgar County

You order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator to size the load.

Pick a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on site.

Delivery covers Paris, Chrisman, Kansas, Hume, Brocton and Metcalf. Bulk material arrives as one tipped pile, so have the drop spot clear before the truck reaches the property.

Ground Conditions Across Edgar County

Edgar County sits on the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois. That ground is flat to gently rolling till under deep, dark prairie silt loams, with silty lake beds in the old slack-water basins.

This is some of the flattest ground in the country, and dense clay subsoil sits beneath it with almost no natural fall. Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain, which is why so much farmland across the plain is tile drained.

A thin base shows that first. Water trapped under a shallow layer of stone works the fines loose and the surface rutts and potholes.

The fix is a base course thick enough to bridge the soft subsoil and a clean drainage layer where water collects.

Sheet erosion off bare silt loam is the other local pattern. Runoff concentrates in yards and gullies form, and stream banks scour after heavy rain.

Riprap armors those edges and slope protection keeps the soil in place.

Frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring after repeated freeze and thaw. Frost depth runs about 36 inches through most of central and eastern Illinois, and the local building department sets the figure that applies to your job.

Choosing the Right Material

Champaign County and Vermilion County share Edgar County's ground region: the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois. The soil and drainage conditions are the same, so the base and drainage choices carry over unchanged.

Clark County is different. It sits on the Southern till plain and claypan country, where loess covers old, weathered Illinoian drift and a tight claypan subsoil sits underneath.

That ground is hard and slow, and it drains poorly.

On claypan, a clean drainage layer matters more than it does on till. CA-7 or CA-11 under a base course gives water somewhere to go instead of holding it against the subsoil.

Order CA-6, Stone and Soil for Edgar County

Start with the quantity. Each product page has a calculator to size the load by the ton or by the yard, and you pick a delivery date at checkout.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone and soil across Edgar County, and a dump truck tips the order on site. Place your order online when you are ready.

Gravel, Stone and Soil for Edgar County, IL