Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Lexington, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Lexington, IL for two kinds of buyers: contractors building drives, pads and drainage, and homeowners fixing a lane or a garden bed. CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone this part of Illinois calls road base, anchors much of that work.

Lexington sits in McLean County on the Grand Prairie till plain, where deep dark silt loam over dense clay decides how a base behaves.

Materials for Lexington Projects

Start with the base course. CA-6 leaves the fines in the mix, so it packs into a firm, tight surface under a drive, a parking pad, a shed floor or a trench backfill.

It is the Illinois base material. Order it as CA-6.

For a finished drive surface, Driveway Gravel tops a compacted base or resurfaces an existing lane. A garden path that needs a finer, walkable surface takes Walkway Gravel instead.

Clean washed stone is the other half of the picture. It has no fines, so water moves through it.

CA-7 is the 1 inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains. 3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean stone for the same bedding and drainage work around concrete flatwork.

Smaller chips and fines handle the tight spots. CA-16 Chips are 3/8 inch limestone chips for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks.

Lime Screenings are the crushed limestone fines that bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe.

Sand and soil round out a project. Washed Sand, which Illinois yards call torpedo sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding.

Mason Sand is the finer clean sand for brick and block mortar and paver joints.

For lawns, grading and bed prep, Top Soil is screened Illinois prairie topsoil, dark and silty. Raised beds and vegetable plots take Garden Soil, and Fill Dirt raises grade before a CA-6 base course goes down.

Decorative work has its own group. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is rounded washed gravel for walkways, play areas and fence post mix.

River Gravel and Large River Rock cover beds, borders and dry creek beds, with the larger stone for downspout splash areas. Bank protection and culvert outlets take RipRap.

Ground and Conditions in Lexington

Start with where the water goes. This is some of the flattest ground in the country, with dense clay subsoil beneath it and almost no natural fall.

Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain.

That matters for a base. A drive or pad over clay holds moisture at the bottom of the section, so the stone above it has to shed water rather than trap it.

A clean washed layer under or beside a fines-bearing base gives that water somewhere to go.

The soil itself is deep, dark prairie silt loam over Wisconsin Episode till. Bare silt loam sheets off in rain, and runoff concentrates into gullies where field and yard water collects.

Riprap and clean stone at a culvert outlet or a slope toe slow that movement.

Timing follows the season. 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.

Frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring across central and eastern Illinois. Frost depth runs about 36 inches through most of that area, rising toward the northern edge, and the local building department sets the figure that applies to a given job.

Delivery to Lexington and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by dump truck and tips in one pile on site. Have the drop area clear and reachable, with room for the truck to pull in and out.

The load lands where the truck stops, so pick the spot before it arrives.

Ordering happens online. You choose a 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 and the truck comes.

Lexington is in McLean County, and delivery reaches the surrounding area, including Bloomington, Normal, Le Roy, Heyworth and Hudson.

Order Gravel and Aggregate for Your Lexington Project

Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, crushed stone, sand, topsoil and decorative rock to Lexington and the surrounding area. Whether the job is a driveway, a parking pad, a drainage trench, a paver patio or a raised bed, the material is ordered online by the ton or the yard and arrives by dump truck.

Place your order when you are ready.