Order Base Rock and Crushed Stone in Audrain County, MO
Start with the calculator. Punch in your length and width, pick a depth, and it sizes the load before you order gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Audrain County, MO. Missouri Rock Supply sells bulk material online, and a dump truck drops it where you need it. Most jobs around Mexico and Vandalia start with base rock, the standard Missouri base material for drives and pads.
From there it depends on the job: washed stone for drainage, screenings for bedding, sand and soil for the finish work. Pick a quantity by the ton or yard, choose a delivery date at checkout, and we haul it out.
Delivery across Audrain County
You order online and set the quantity yourself, by the ton or by the yard. The calculator is there when you are not sure how much a project takes. Once the order is in, you pick a delivery date at checkout.
A dump truck brings the load to the site and spreads it where it can reach. That works well for a driveway in Laddonia, a shed pad in Martinsburg, or a farm lane outside Thompson. We also deliver to Farber, Rush Hill and Benton City.
Have the truck access figured out ahead of time. Soft ground from late fall into spring can stop a loaded truck, so a dry stretch of lane helps. If the ground is questionable, order the material in and stage it near the road.
Materials delivered in Audrain County
Most orders here break into three groups: what goes under a driveway, what drains water, and what finishes the surface. Here is how the common materials sort out.
Base and driveway material
Base Rock is the one to start with. It is also called type 5 base or type 1 base. Both are 1 inch dense-graded mixes of crushed stone and fines, with Type 5 also capping the finest dust fraction.
Order base rock for driveways, parking pads, shed bases and farm lanes. Crusher Run does the same work where you want a tight, compacting material with fines. Driveway Gravel is the surface course, also sold as road rock or 1 inch road rock, and it goes over a compacted base course.
Drainage and washed stone
Washed stone has no fines, so water moves through it. The Missouri name for that family is clean rock, most often meaning 1 inch clean, also called #57 stone. Use it for French drains, septic fields and concrete aggregate.
#67 Stone is a slightly smaller washed size for drainage and concrete work. 3/4" Crushed Stone handles drainage beds, drive surfacing and construction entrances. 3/8" Crushed Stone is the fine drainage and pipe bedding size. For a dedicated drain run, Drain Rock covers French drains, foundation drains and downspout runs.
Surface, bedding and finish material
Walkway Gravel gives paths a finer, walkable surface. Screenings are the fine crushed stone and dust left from crushing, and they bed pavers, flagstone and patios. Mason Sand is for brick and block work and paver joints, while Washed Sand levels and beds under slabs. River Rock finishes decorative beds and dry creek beds. RipRap armors creek banks, pond dams and culvert outlets against high water.
Ground conditions across Audrain County
Audrain County sits in the Northern Missouri glacial plains. The ground is silty loess laid over glacial clay till, deepest on the hills and bluffs along the Missouri River. Under the flat prairies of the northeast, a tight claypan sits close to the surface.
That matters more than any material choice. Subsoils here are dense and slow to drain, so water perches on the clay and stands on flat ground from late fall into spring. An under-built base fails because the water has nowhere to go.
Two things fix that. First, get the grade draining before the stone goes down. Second, use a washed stone layer where water needs to move, and keep base rock for the load-bearing course where fines help it lock up.
Runoff also cuts rills and gullies in the loess and till slopes, worst on bare or freshly graded ground. Rip rap on slopes, culvert outlets and creek banks holds that ground in place. On the working calendar, upland clay stays wet and soft from late fall into spring, so base and driveway work goes best from late spring into fall, between the wet season and the first hard freeze.
Winters here are the hardest in Missouri. January nights average well below freezing while many days thaw, so the ground freezes and thaws over and over, and frost depth is the deepest in the state. The local building code sets footing depth.
Choosing the right material
Ground next door changes the call. Boone County, just west, sits in Central Missouri and spans the Missouri and Mississippi river hills and the Northern Missouri glacial plains, so its ground reads a lot like Audrain's. The base and drainage choices are much the same.
Pike County, to the east, also spans the river hills and the glacial plains, so the same reasoning holds there.
Ralls County, to the northeast, is different. Its ground is silty loess on the ridgetops over cherty clay and limestone, dolomite, sandstone or shale that shows in bluffs and hillsides, with deep silt, sand and clay in the river bottoms. Sinkholes form where limestone or dolomite lies close to the surface. There, drainage design carries more weight, and washed stone matters more than it does on Audrain's claypan prairies.
Order base rock for your Audrain County job
Base rock is the material most Audrain County projects start with, and it is the right first call for drives, pads and farm lanes. Size the load with the calculator, pick your delivery date, and let the truck do the hauling. Order your base rock and the rest of your stone online whenever you are ready.