CA-6, Sand and Gravel Delivery in Ford County, IL

Order gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Ford County, IL without leaving the house. Illinois Rock Supply sells bulk material online by the ton or the yard, and a dump truck tips it where you need it.

Start with CA-6, also called road base or 3/4 dense grade. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, and it is the base material this part of Illinois is built on.

Materials Delivered in Ford County

CA-6 is the anchor.

Those numbers are how material is specified and ordered here, nothing more.

CA-6 goes down under driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill. The fines bind it into a firm surface once it is compacted.

Order it by the ton or the yard from CA-6.

Clean stone for water and concrete

Washed clean stone has no fines. Water moves through it instead of sitting in it, which is the whole point of a drainage layer.

• CA-7 is 1 inch clean stone. It beds pipe, lines drainage trenches and French drains, and sits under concrete flatwork.
• 3/4" Crushed Stone is the CA-11 size, the 3/4 inch washed stone yards sell next to CA-7 for bedding and concrete work.
• CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch chips for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks.
• Drain Rock covers the same ground for French drains, drywells and foundation drains.
• RipRap is heavy broken stone for bank protection, culvert outlets, pond edges and slope armoring.

Sand, soil and decorative stone

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

Lime screenings are crushed limestone fines. They are the standard bedding layer under pavers and flagstone here, and they backfill around pipe instead of stone.

For beds and borders, Natural Pea Gravel and river gravel both work. Large river rock handles dry creek beds and downspout splash areas.

Screened topsoil takes lawns and grading, garden soil fills raised beds, fill dirt raises grade before a CA-6 course goes down, and shredded mulch holds moisture through an Illinois summer.

Delivery Across Ford County

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the load against your own project before you check out.

Pick a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck brings the material to the address. The load is tipped in one pile on site.

Deliveries reach Paxton, Gibson City, Piper City, Roberts, Melvin, Kempton, Sibley and Cabery.

Nothing else is needed from you on the day. The order is placed online and the truck arrives.

Ground Conditions Across Ford County

This is some of the flattest ground in the country, and the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois sits under deep, dark prairie silt loams. Dense clay subsoil lies beneath it with almost no natural fall, so water stands rather than runs after heavy rain.

That is why a thin base course shows its problems fast. Water that cannot drain away reaches the subgrade and stays there, and the surface above it moves.

Clean washed stone is the fix where water is the issue. CA-7 or CA-11 gives the water somewhere to go, while CA-6 handles the load-bearing part of the job.

Bare silt loam also washes. Sheet erosion takes the surface off bare ground, and concentrated runoff cuts gullies where field and yard water collects.

RipRap armors banks, culvert outlets and pond edges against that.

Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall. Ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through the winter, so timing matters as much as material.

Choosing the Right Material

Ground changes as you move between counties. Kankakee County sits on the Chicago lake plain and the northeastern moraines, where heavy silt and clay of the old Lake Chicago plain give way inland to clay-rich till and shallow dolomite bedrock in places.

That is a different set of problems from Ford County's flat prairie silt loam. Clay holds water instead of passing it, so drainage stone and bank armoring carry more of the load there.

McLean County and Champaign County share this ground region, the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois. The same flat till and deep prairie silt loams apply, so the base and drainage choices follow the same pattern.

Match the material to the job. CA-6 for anything that carries weight, clean stone where water has to move, lime screenings and torpedo sand for bedding, and soil or mulch for planting.

Questions About Gravel Delivery in Ford County

How deep should a gravel driveway base be in Ford County?

Depth depends on what the drive carries and how the ground below it drains. Ford County sits on flat prairie silt loam over dense clay, so water has almost nowhere to go and the subgrade stays wet.

Bring the question to the calculator on the product page with your own dimensions instead of guessing. Your local building department sets any depth figure that applies to footings.

How much gravel do I need for my project?

Order by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the load before you check out.

Have your measurements ready and let the numbers decide the quantity. Nothing is sized by eye here.

Do you deliver to Ford County?

Yes. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand, topsoil and mulch across Ford County, including Paxton, Gibson City, Piper City, Roberts, Melvin, Kempton, Sibley and Cabery.

Order online, choose a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load at your address.

Order CA-6 and Bulk Aggregate Online

Start with the calculator on the product page and settle your quantity in tons or yards. Then place the order online and pick your delivery date.

Illinois Rock Supply brings CA-6, clean stone, sand, soil and mulch to addresses across Ford County.