Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Thebes, IL

Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Thebes, IL to driveways, pads and planting beds. CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, is the base material most ground here needs before anything else goes down.

Thebes sits on flat alluvial bottomland in Alexander County, where deep silt, sand and clay hold water after heavy rain. That ground shapes what you order and how you build on it.

Delivery to Thebes and the Surrounding Area

You order online and a dump truck tips the load on your site. Pick your material, then set the quantity by the ton or by the yard.

Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.

Choose a delivery date at checkout and the truck arrives with your material. Bulk loads come in one pile where the truck can reach, so have the spot clear before the delivery date.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers across Thebes, Cairo, Olive Branch, Tamms, McClure and Miller City. If your site is in Alexander County, a bulk load can reach it.

Materials for Thebes Projects

Decorative rock does a lot of work on low, wet ground. Rounded stone sheds water instead of holding it, and it covers bare silt where grass will not take.

River gravel, also called river rock, is rounded decorative gravel for beds, borders and dry creek beds. A dry creek bed gives runoff a path across a flat yard instead of letting it pool.

Large river rock handles the heavier end of that work. Bigger rounded stone suits dry creek beds, downspout splash areas and heavier decorative cover.

For a walkable surface, 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is rounded 3/8 inch washed gravel for walkways, play areas and fence post mix. Mason Sand fills paver joints and sandboxes, and it is the fine clean sand for brick and block mortar.

Under all of it, CA-6 is the compacted base for drives, parking pads and shed floors. Lime Screenings bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe.

Ground and Conditions in Thebes

The ground across the Cairo lowland and the southern river bottoms is flat alluvial bottomland with deep silt, sand and clay laid down by the rivers. Sand ridges and old channel scars break up the surface, and the water table sits high under most of it.

This is the lowest ground in the state, held behind levees and drainage districts. Backwater from the rivers keeps water on the land, and heavy rain has nowhere to go.

That matters most under a base. Soft silt and clay move when they stay wet, so an under-built base pumps and ruts instead of holding.

CA-6 with the fines left in knits together and stays put where clean stone would shift.

Where water has to move, CA-7 and CA-11 are the washed clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains. CA-16 Chips, the 3/8 inch limestone chips, suit permeable paver bedding and drainage around tanks.

Erosion shows up as bank caving and scour along the rivers and as wash across soft silty ground wherever runoff concentrates. RipRap, the heavy broken stone, armors banks, culvert outlets, pond edges and slopes.

Work is possible almost year round here, but river stages set the calendar. Spring and early summer high water can shut bottomland sites for weeks, so plan around the water rather than the weather.

Order CA-6 and Decorative Rock for Your Thebes Project

CA-6 is the base that carries a driveway, a pad or a shed floor on this ground, and rounded stone covers the beds and walks above it. Order online by the ton or the yard, pick your delivery date, and Illinois Rock Supply brings the load to your Thebes site.