Gravel, Stone and Soil for Ellsworth County, KS
Kansas Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Ellsworth County, KS. AB-3 is the base material here.
AB-3 is dense-graded crushed limestone, rock and fines together, graded roughly 1 1/2 inch down. It locks up tight when it is moisture-conditioned and rolled, so it carries driveways, parking pads and shop bases.
Materials delivered in Ellsworth County
Aggregate base is called AB-3, and the requirements sit in Section 1104 of the Kansas Standard Specifications.
City and county work references the same class, so AB-3 is the term to use when ordering base.
Clean washed limestone is sold by inch size in Kansas, so 1 inch clean and 3/4 inch crushed stone are named that way rather than by number. Screenings bed pavers and surface paths.
Rip rap lines ditches and holds banks where runoff moves fast.
Ground conditions across Ellsworth County
Across the Smoky Hills, Blue Hills and Post Rock country, silty and clayey soils sit over Cretaceous rock. Dakota sandstone, Greenhorn limestone and Niobrara chalk run through the ground, with loess on many uplands.
Greenhorn limestone is the Post Rock fencepost country.
Silty upland soil crusts over and sheds water. The chalk and shale beneath it are close to impervious, so water that gets through the silt does not travel far.
Summer storms drop a lot of rain in a short time.
That combination matters for a base. A compacted AB-3 layer needs to sit on ground that has been shaped to move water away, because the soil under it will not take it.
Wind and water both work here too. Exposed silt blows, and short intense storms gully bare slopes and scour river banks.
There is a long dry working season either side of a short wet spring. Rapid drying and dust are as much of a problem as rain when you are trying to compact material.
Cold, dry winters with sharp temperature swings loosen compacted surfaces and heave gravel drives.
Kansas sets no statewide frost figure. North-central Kansas jurisdictions each set their own, and frost is reckoned deeper here than in south-central Kansas.
Any footing depth belongs to the building official in the town where you are building.
Delivery across Ellsworth County
Delivery covers Ellsworth, Wilson, Kanopolis, Holyrood and Lorraine, along with the surrounding county. You order online and a dump truck tips the load on site in one pile.
Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size a load before you order.
Pick a delivery date at checkout and the truck arrives on that date.
Choosing the right material
Ellsworth County sits on silty and clayey soils over Cretaceous rock, with loess on many of the uplands. McPherson County, Barton County and Rice County sit on a different ground region entirely: the Arkansas River Lowlands and the south-central sand prairie.
There, sand, gravel and silt laid down by the Arkansas River lie under stabilized dune sand across the Great Bend Prairie, with a sandy loam over the top. That ground drains differently from the tight, silty upland soil here.
On sandy ground, water moves down and away. On the silty, clayey ground across this county, water sits until it is shed at the surface.
If you are working a site here, shape the ground so water leaves before you place a base course.
For a compacted base under a drive, pad or shop floor, AB-3 is the material Kansas specifies. For a smaller dense-graded job, 1 inch minus tops a drive or builds up a shoulder.
Where you need water to pass rather than sit, clean stone such as 1 inch clean or 3/4 inch crushed stone is the choice.
Order gravel, stone and soil in Ellsworth County
Kansas Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Ellsworth County, including Ellsworth, Wilson, Kanopolis, Holyrood and Lorraine. AB-3, clean rock, screenings, river rock, rip rap and topsoil are all ordered online by the ton or by the yard.
Pick your delivery date at checkout and the truck tips the load on site.