Order #53 Stone and Crushed Stone in Dubois County, IN

Order gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Dubois County, IN online. Indiana Rock Supply sells bulk material by the ton or the yard, delivered to your site. Start with #53 stone, the dense graded base most drives and pads are built on here.

River valley flats and silty uplands drain slowly in wet seasons, so base depth and drainage matter. Pick your material, set your quantity, place the order.

Materials Delivered in Dubois County

#53 stone, also called 53 stone or #53 crushed limestone, is the standard Indiana base. 53 in Section 904 of the Standard Specifications. It is a dense graded stone with fines that packs hard under driveways, parking pads, shed bases, and pavers or slabs.

Build the base with #53 Stone, then top it with a finer dense graded size. The materials below cover most jobs in the county.

Decorative and finish material rounds out an order. Choose River Rock for beds and dry creek beds, 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel for walkways and play areas, and Mason Sand for brick and block work or paver joints.

Ground Conditions Across Dubois County

A thin base is the failure you see first here. It ruts, pumps, and sinks under a truck in spring. The cause is usually a soft, silty subgrade that never got drained or compacted before stone went down.

The fix starts below the stone. The region sits in the Southwest Wabash and Ohio lowlands, where broad river valleys and old lake-bed flats hold silt and clay. Low valley bottoms drain slowly and flood when the Wabash, White, Patoka or Ohio rivers and their tributaries run high. Many upland soils also carry a fragipan that holds water near the surface in wet seasons.

So excavate to a firm layer, then build up. Use clean stone such as #57 or #8 for a drainage layer where water sits. Compact the #53 base in lifts rather than one deep dump, and crown the finished surface so it sheds.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Bare loess washes away fast once its cover is stripped, and river and ditch banks cut during floods. Arm those banks with rip rap instead of bare soil.

Winters here are milder than in northern Indiana but still bring repeated freeze-thaw that heaves gravel drives and softens wet, silty subgrades. Frost depth runs shallower than northern Indiana, and the county or city building department sets the exact footing depth, so do not borrow a northern figure.

Timing matters too. Winter and spring are the high-water months on the river bottoms. Low sites build best from late spring through fall, once water drops and the silt dries out.

Delivery Across Dubois County

First decision: tons or yards. Order by the ton when you know the weight your truck or trailer can legally carry. Order by the yard when you are filling a known volume, such as a raised bed or a trench.

Estimate quantity by volume, then convert. Multiply length by width by depth in feet, divide by 27 for cubic yards, and use the material's weight per yard to get tons. Round up. A short load costs you a second delivery.

Bulk delivery is simple. Place the order online and pick your material and quantity. The driver needs a clear path for the truck and a spot to dump, plus a way to spread or stockpile the pile.

We deliver across the county, including Jasper, Huntingburg, Ferdinand, Holland, Dubois, Birdseye, Celestine, Schnellville and St. Anthony.

Choosing the Right Material

Your base choice follows your ground. On the flat, silty valley ground around Dubois County, plan on a deeper compacted #53 base and a clean stone drainage layer under it. On firmer upland sites, a standard base depth holds up.

Neighbors to the east and north sit on different ground. Orange, Crawford and Martin counties share the South-central hills and karst country ground zone: mostly unglaciated hills with thin, silty soils over sandstone, siltstone and shale on steep ridges, and red-brown clay over limestone on the karst plain, where sinkholes, caves and sinking streams are common.

That changes the material call. Steep ridge sites there need rip rap and drainage stone for slope and ditch protection more than a deep base. Karst ground can lose water and fines into sinkholes, so clean stone and careful drainage planning matter more than compaction depth. Towns along the Ohio River sit on flat terraces below the hills, closer to the valley work you see here.

Size the Load, Then Place the Order

Work out your square footage and depth before you order. The site calculator turns those numbers into yards and tons, so you buy what the job needs. Then enter your delivery address in Dubois County and place the order online.