Perry County, IL Gravel and Landscape Rock Delivery

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Perry County, IL, ordered online and tipped on site by dump truck. Start with the calculator on any product page to size the load, then pick your material.

CA-6, also called road base, is the Illinois base material: dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in. It is what most drives, pads and shed bases here start from.

Delivery across Perry County

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load in one pile at the address you give.

Coverage runs across the county, including Du Quoin, Pinckneyville, Tamaroa and Cutler. Each product page carries a calculator so you can size the load before you order.

Bulk delivery is a full load tipped in place, so think about where that pile should sit before the truck arrives. There is no spreading and no placing.

Materials delivered in Perry County

Article 1004.01 sets the coarse aggregate gradations CA 1 through CA 20, and Article 1005.01 sets riprap as RR 3 through RR 7.

CA-6 carries the most weight in a county like this one. It is dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

Use it for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill. Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted base.

For clean work, CA-7 and CA-11 are the washed stones with no fines. They bed pipe, feed drainage trenches and French drains, and go under concrete flatwork.

CA-16 Chips are the small 3/8 inch size for permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks. Lime Screenings bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe.

Sand comes two ways. Washed Sand, which Illinois yards call torpedo sand, is the coarse grade for concrete, leveling and bedding.

Mason Sand is finer, for brick and block mortar, paver joints, sandboxes and volleyball courts.

3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is rounded washed gravel for walkways, play areas and drainage. River Gravel and Large River Rock are rounded decorative stone for beds, borders and dry creek beds.

RipRap is the heavy broken stone for bank protection, culvert outlets, pond edges and slope armoring. For soil, Top Soil handles lawns and grading, Garden Soil fills raised beds and planting areas, and Fill Dirt raises grade before a CA-6 base course goes down.

Ground conditions across Perry County

This county sits in Southern till plain and claypan country. Loess covers old, weathered Illinoian drift, and the tight claypan subsoil sits close to the surface.

That claypan stops water moving down, so winter and spring rain perches on top of it. Ground stays saturated for weeks, and unbound base can pump under traffic.

Sheet and gully erosion shows up where the thin loess is bared. Bank scour and flooding are real concerns on the rivers that cross this part of the state.

On the working calendar, the season runs longer than upstate at both ends. A wet winter and spring still keep sites soft well into April, so late summer and fall are the reliable windows for a delivery.

Winters here are cold but shorter than in the north, with frequent freeze and thaw swings working on saturated clay. That heaves drives and walks.

Frost depth is about 30 to 36 inches, and the local building department sets it.

Choosing the right material

Franklin County shares this ground region exactly: Southern till plain and claypan country, with the same loess over weathered Illinoian drift and the same tight claypan subsoil. The ground is the same, so the material logic is the same.

Jackson County spans more than one zone, covering Shawnee Hills and the southern uplands plus the Cairo lowland and southern river bottoms. That is a different ground profile from the claypan here, so drainage and base choices can differ.

Randolph County sits on deep loess over older Illinoian drift, with dissected bluffs and ravines, sinkhole karst, and thick silty alluvium on the American Bottom. Where the ground is that different, clean stone and riprap matter more than they do on flat claypan.

For a compacted base on claypan ground, CA-6 is the starting point. Where you need water to move, step up to CA-7, CA-11 or CA-16 chips instead.

Order CA-6, stone and topsoil for delivery in Perry County

Illinois Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone and aggregate across Perry County, including Du Quoin, Pinckneyville, Tamaroa and Cutler. Order online, size the load by the ton or yard, and pick your delivery date at checkout.

A dump truck tips it on site.