Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Springfield, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Springfield, IL, and the load you need starts with a quantity. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the pile before you order.

Around here the base material is CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in.

That is the same stone Springfield contractors mean when they say road base. From there you pick the clean stone, sand or soil the job calls for.

Delivery to Springfield and the Surrounding Area

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 on site as one pile.

There is nothing to arrange on the day and no counter to visit.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across Sangamon County, including Chatham, Auburn, Sherman, Rochester and Riverton. Whether the site is a new pad inside Springfield or a drive out toward one of those towns, the process is the same.

Size the load, place the order, and the truck arrives with the material.

Materials for Springfield Projects

Much of the work in Springfield starts below the finished surface. Fill dirt raises grade and builds pads before anything goes on top of it, which is the first order of business on a low or uneven lot.

A building pad or a garage base then takes CA-6 over that fill, because the dense graded limestone with the fines left in compacts into a tight, stable surface.

For a driveway, that same CA-6 is the base course, and driveway gravel is what you surface or top an existing drive with. Walkway gravel gives paths and garden walks a finer, walkable finish.

Drainage work calls for clean washed stone instead of a fines-bearing base. CA-7 is the one inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains, and CA-11 is the 3/4 inch clean washed stone yards sell alongside it for the same work.

Around tanks and under permeable pavers, CA-16 chips are the smaller 3/8 inch size.

Flatwork and masonry pull from the sand family. Torpedo sand is the coarse washed sand for concrete and bedding, while mason sand is the fine clean sand for brick and block mortar.

Bedding pavers and flagstone is a job for lime screenings, the crushed limestone fines that Illinois crews bed on.

Decorative work runs to Natural Pea Gravel for walkways and play areas, river gravel for beds and borders, and large river rock for dry creek beds and downspout splash areas. Rip rap serves bank protection and culvert outlets, and topsoil or garden soil finishes lawns, beds and raised plots.

Ground and Conditions in Springfield

Springfield sits on the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, where deep, dark prairie silt loams sit over clay subsoil. This is flat ground with almost no natural fall, so water stands rather than runs after heavy rain.

That combination is what makes an under-built base fail. Silt loam moves when it stays wet, and a base course laid on soft, saturated ground will not hold its shape.

Fill placed first and compacted gives the base something firm to sit on.

Where water collects, clean washed stone is the drainage layer, because a fines-bearing material holds moisture instead of passing it. Sheet erosion off bare silt loam is the other spring problem on exposed lots, and runoff that concentrates will gully a yard before grass takes.

Timing matters as much as material. Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall here.

Ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through the winter. Central Illinois sees repeated freeze and thaw, so gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs can heave each spring.

Questions Springfield Buyers Ask

What is the best base under pavers in Springfield?

CA-6 is the base course, placed over fill where grade has to come up. Lime screenings go directly under the pavers as the bedding layer, because the crushed limestone fines level and hold a consistent surface.

Clean washed stone belongs in drainage work, not under a paver base, since it has no fines to bind it.

Do you supply contractors working in Springfield?

Yes. Illinois Rock Supply delivers bulk material to job sites across Springfield and the rest of Sangamon County, including Chatham, Auburn, Sherman, Rochester and Riverton.

You order online by the ton or by the yard, size the load with the calculator on each product page, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Order CA-6 and Base Material in Springfield

For pads, drives and grade work in Springfield, CA-6 is the base material to start with, and fill dirt goes underneath it. Clean stone, sand, soil and decorative rock are all available in bulk.

Size your load on the product page and place the order online for delivery.