Iron County, MO Gravel and Landscape Rock Delivery

Start with the calculator, not the truck. Missouri Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Iron County, MO, and sizing the load is the first call you make. Enter your area and depth, pick tons or yards, and the calculator returns a number you can order against. Base rock is the material most jobs here start with, because the ground under a drive or pad is what decides how the surface holds up.

Iron County runs across two ground zones. Ironton, Arcadia, Annapolis and Des Arc sit in the St. Francois Mountains, on rocky knobs with silty clay basins between them. Viburnum sits on the Ozark Plateau, on cherty clay over limestone and dolomite.

Delivery across Iron County

Order online and set the delivery date at checkout. You choose the quantity by the ton or by the yard, and a dump truck brings it to the site. If you are unsure of the number, run the calculator first and adjust before you submit.

Delivery covers Ironton, Viburnum, Arcadia, Annapolis, Des Arc, Belleview, Bixby, Middle Brook and Vulcan. Rural lanes and job sites off the main routes are part of the normal run.

Materials delivered in Iron County

Order by project type. Most jobs here fall into a driveway, a pad or patio, or a drainage run, and each one pulls from a different set of materials.

Driveways and lanes

Base Rock is the standard Missouri base material, also called type 5 base or type 1 base. Type 1 and Type 5 are 1 inch dense-graded mixes of crushed stone and fines, with Type 5 also capping the finest dust fraction. Type 7 is a coarser 1-1/2 inch grade. Use it under drives, parking pads, shed bases and farm lanes.

Top a compacted base course with Driveway Gravel. Missouri quarries sell surfacing grades as road rock by top size, and 1 inch road rock is a common pick for gravel roads and long rural drives.

Where you want a binding material with fines that compacts hard, Crusher Run does the work. It is not a clean stone, and it should not be ordered as one.

Drainage and washed stone

#57 Limestone is what Missouri quarries sell as 1 inch clean, washed with no fines. It goes in French drains, septic fields and concrete work. Clean rock is the family name for washed stone with no fines, and it never means base rock or crusher run.

Drain Rock covers foundation drains, downspout runs and drainage behind walls. 3/4" Crushed Stone handles drainage beds and construction entrances.

Pads, patios and beds

Screenings are the fine crushed stone and dust left from crushing, and they set paver, flagstone and patio bedding. Note that screenings are not ag lime; agricultural lime is a separate soil product.

Walkway Gravel gives paths and garden walks a finer, walkable surface. River Rock and Large River Rock dress up beds, borders and dry creek beds, while 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel works for play areas and walkways.

Ground conditions across Iron County

In the St. Francois Mountains, soils on the knobs are rocky and thin over granite and rhyolite. The basins between them hold silty clay over dolomite and sandstone. Rain runs off the steep knobs fast and gathers in the basins, where valley creeks rise quickly in heavy storms.

That runoff carries soil and grit onto roads and drives below, and storm flows cut creek banks in the basins. Plan slope protection and a drainage layer on any drive running downhill, and expect the base course to need more depth where the subgrade is soft clay.

On the Ozark Plateau around Viburnum, the ground is cherty, rocky clay over limestone and dolomite, thin and stony on slopes and ridges. Sinkholes, springs, caves and losing streams are common, and on flatter uplands a thin silty cap covers the rock.

Heavy storms there send fast runoff off rocky slopes into narrow valleys, while upland water drains underground through sinkholes and cracks in the bedrock. Soil can wash into those openings, so keep loose fill and fines away from them.

Spring is the wettest stretch in both zones, and storms raise creeks quickly. Midwinter freezes also stop work in the mountains, where January nights average below freezing and days usually thaw, so the ground freezes and thaws repeatedly. Frost depth runs shallower than northern Missouri, and the local building code sets footing depth.

Choosing the right material

Washington County shares both of Iron County's ground zones, so the material call is much the same. Base rock under drives and washed stone for drainage carry over, and the projects tend to be similar.

Crawford County sits on the Ozark Plateau, on cherty, rocky clay over limestone and dolomite with sinkholes and losing streams. That ground drains underground fast, so drainage stone matters more than it does on the mountain knobs, and base courses there sit on stonier clay.

Dent County, in the Ozarks, carries the same plateau ground. Base rock still goes down first, but the chert and rock in the soil slow digging, so plan the base and drainage layers before work starts.

Order base rock for your Iron County job

Base rock is the material that carries most jobs in Iron County, whether you are building a drive off a rocky knob or a pad on cherty plateau clay. Size the load with the calculator, pick your stone and sand, and order online for delivery in Iron County, MO.