Gravel, Stone and Soil for Ogle County, IL
Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Ogle County, IL for contractors and homeowners alike. A builder working a new pad near Rochelle and a homeowner redoing a drive in Polo both order the same way, online, by the ton or the yard.
Start with CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone that carries most base work in this state. It goes down as road base for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.
Materials delivered in Ogle County
CA-6, also written CA6 or called road base, is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.
Dense graded base falls at CA-6.
Clean washed stone comes next.
CA-7 is the one inch washed stone for pipe bedding, drainage trenches, French drains and concrete flatwork. CA-11 is the 3/4 inch size for the same work.
At the small end sits CA-16 Chips, the 3/8 inch limestone chips for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks. Lime Screenings are crushed limestone fines for paver and flagstone bedding and for backfill around pipe, the standard bedding layer in Illinois.
Sand and soil round out the load. Washed Sand is the coarse torpedo sand for concrete and bedding, while Mason Sand is the finer clean sand for mortar, paver joints, sandboxes and volleyball courts.
Top Soil covers lawns and bed prep, and Garden Soil fills raised beds and vegetable plots. Fill Dirt raises grade before a CA-6 course goes down.
For decorative work, River Gravel is the rounded stone for beds, borders and dry creek beds, with Large River Rock for splash areas and heavier borders. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel suits walkways and play areas.
Delivery across Ogle County
Ordering is online. You pick the material, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.
You choose a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile.
Delivery covers Rochelle, Oregon, Byron, Mount Morris, Davis Junction, Polo, Stillman Valley, Forreston, Monroe Center, Leaf River, Baileyville, Chana and Lindenwood. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, whichever suits how you bid the job.
Ground conditions across Ogle County
Ogle County sits in the Northern Illinois till plains and Rock River country. Wisconsin Episode till and loamy prairie soils lie over dolomite, broken by the rocky Rock River hill country.
When a base is too thin, the failure shows up fast. Till holds water, and snowmelt and spring rain on frozen ground push water across the surface instead of letting it soak in.
A thin layer of base stone loses its shape under that water, and the drive ruts and potholes.
The fix is a compacted CA-6 base with a clean washed stone drainage layer where water needs somewhere to go. On steeper till slopes and the Rock River bluffs, gully and sheet erosion take the surface, and bank scour works at the channels.
Frost action is heavy here. Northern Illinois winters bring repeated freeze and thaw in unbound base and shallow footings, and the building department sets footing depth.
The working season runs from the spring thaw into late fall, and frozen ground stops compaction in the winter.
Choosing the right material
Winnebago County shares Ogle County's ground region, the Northern Illinois till plains and Rock River country, so the base and drainage choices are the same there.
Stephenson County and Carroll County sit on different ground. Both are Driftless and old-drift northwest, the only corner of Illinois the Wisconsin Episode ice never covered.
Deep wind-blown loess covers dolomite and limestone, with thin soil on the ridges and rock close to the surface on steep valley sides.
That changes material choice. Where rock sits close to the surface, a base course has less depth to work with and drainage has to be planned around shallow rock rather than deep till.
Loess on a ridge also erodes differently than till, so slope protection matters more.
Order gravel, stone and soil in Ogle County
Get your quantity right before you order. Each product page has a calculator, and you choose tons or yards depending on the job.
When the numbers are set, place the order online and pick your delivery date.
Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk aggregate across Ogle County, from CA-6 base stone to washed sand, topsoil and decorative rock. Order online when you are ready.