Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Lewistown, IL

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Lewistown, IL online, by the ton or by the yard, and Illinois Rock Supply sends a dump truck to your site. Start with CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone this part of Illinois calls road base.

Lewistown sits in Fulton County, on ground that runs from rolling uplands into dissected bluffs. The ground here decides what you put down and how much of it you need.

Materials for Lewistown Projects

Grading and bed prep start below the surface. Fix the grade first, then build the base, then finish with stone or soil.

Soil, Fill and Mulch

Top Soil is screened Illinois prairie soil, dark and silty, for lawns, grading and bed prep. Garden Soil is a blended mix for raised beds, vegetable plots and planting areas.

Fill Dirt raises grade before a CA-6 base course goes down. Shredded Mulch covers beds and tree rings and holds moisture through a long Illinois summer.

Base and Driveway Stone

CA-6 is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in. It builds driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases, and trench backfill.

Crusher Run is the same fines-in stone under its secondary name.

Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted base. Walkway Gravel gives paths and garden walks a finer, walkable surface.

Washed Stone and Drainage

CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines, for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains. 3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone for bedding and concrete work.

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

RipRap is heavy broken stone for bank protection, culvert outlets and pond edges. Drain Rock is clean washed stone for French drains, drywells and downspout runs.

Sand and Decorative Stone

Washed Sand, called torpedo sand here, is coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding. Mason Sand is the fine clean sand for brick and block mortar and paver joints.

3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is rounded washed gravel for walkways, play areas and fence post mix. River Gravel and Large River Rock handle beds, borders and dry creek beds.

Ground and Conditions in Lewistown

Start with where the water goes. Across the Western Illinois loess uplands and the Mississippi border, loess sheds water fast on slopes and holds it in the flats.

That split matters on a Lewistown driveway. On a slope, runoff strips a fines-bearing surface and cuts rill and gully erosion into the loess.

On a flat, the same water sits and softens whatever is under the stone.

Deep loess over older drift is the ground under both. It is silty, it moves when it is wet, and it does not carry a load the way a gravelly soil does.

So a drive or pad needs a compacted CA-6 base that spreads the load, not just a thin skin of stone over bare dirt. Where water has nowhere to run, a clean washed stone layer such as CA-7 or CA-11 gives it somewhere to go.

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall here, a little longer than upstate. Cold winters bring repeated freeze and thaw, and frost lifts drives and walks each spring.

Frost depth is set by the local building department, so check with Fulton County before you plan anything that has to reach below it. Riprap and large river rock armor the places where concentrated runoff has already cut in.

Delivery to Lewistown and the Surrounding Area

Order online. Choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load.

Pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck arrives and tips the load in one pile on site, so have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck gets there.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Fulton County, including Canton, Farmington, Astoria, Cuba and Vermont. Lewistown orders ship the same way as anywhere else in the county.

Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Lewistown

Illinois Rock Supply covers grading and bed prep, driveway and pad bases, drainage, and decorative stone for Lewistown and Fulton County. Order CA-6, washed stone, sand, topsoil or fill online by the ton or yard and set your delivery date.