Can I order material for a commercial or contractor job?

Yes. Indiana Rock Supply serves contractors and homeowners in Floyd County with the same bulk materials. Commercial and contractor jobs usually order by the ton, often in multiple loads, and we can time deliveries to your site schedule. Pick the material and quantity for the job, use the calculator to size each load, and choose delivery dates at checkout.

What is the difference between topsoil and fill dirt?

Topsoil is the screened surface layer you plant in, used for lawns and bed prep over heavy clay or thin rocky ground. Fill dirt is structural: it raises grade, fills low spots and backfills before a #53 stone base goes down. Fill dirt is not meant for growing, and topsoil is not meant to carry a slab, so keep the two jobs separate.

Floyd County #53 Stone and Gravel Delivery, IN

Q: When is the best time of year to order base material in Floyd County?

Late spring through fall is the best window, when the ground is workable and dry enough to compact. In wet winter and spring weather, clay turns slick and steep, unpaved drives rut and wash out. Freeze-thaw also heaves gravel drives. Ordering base material before the wet season lets you build the pad while conditions hold.

Indiana Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Floyd County, IN for two kinds of buyers: contractors building drives, pads and drainage, and homeowners fixing a rutted lane or a wet spot. Most of those jobs start with #53 stone, the dense graded base that packs hard under almost everything. The ground here decides the rest, from thin ridgetop soils to clay over limestone on the karst plain.

Materials Delivered in Floyd County

#53 stone is the material most orders begin with. It is a dense graded crushed limestone with fines. 53 in Section 904 of the Standard Specifications. Those fines are what let it lock up and stay put, which is why it goes under pavers, slabs, shed bases, parking pads and driveways. On a steep Floyds Knobs drive, that packed base is what keeps the surface from creeping downhill.

Above the base, the choice depends on the surface you want and how water moves. A finer dense graded stone, #73 stone, tops and resurfaces drives, shoulders and parking areas where a tighter, smoother pack is wanted. Clean single-size stone does the drainage work, and sand and soil finish the job.

Other materials in the yard include walkway gravel for paths, #8 Stone for underdrains and drive topping, stone screenings for paver bedding, #57 Stone for drainage and concrete, 3/4 inch crushed stone for construction entrances, fill dirt for raising grade, river rock for dry creek beds, and shredded mulch for beds.

Ground Conditions Across Floyd County

Start with how a base fails here. On thin, silty ridgetop soils, a light base layer dries out, shifts and ruts at the edges, because the soil beneath it holds water near the surface and never firms up. The fix is to excavate to a solid subgrade, then build the #53 stone in lifts and compact each one. A solid compacted base is the usual starting point for a drive, and soft spots need more.

On the karst plain, the failure looks different. Water drains into sinkholes, so runoff aimed at one can wash out fill or open a collapse. Keep drainage away from sinkhole mouths and armor ditch outlets with rip rap. Bare steep slopes gully fast, and shale-rich slopes can slide, so seed or stone them before winter.

Winters bring repeated freeze-thaw that heaves gravel drives and softens clay subgrades. Frost depth is shallower than in northern Indiana, and the exact footing depth is set by the county or city building department, so do not assume a northern figure. Base and driveway work runs best from late spring through fall; in wet winter and spring weather clay turns slick and steep, unpaved drives rut and wash out.

Delivery Across Floyd County

Decide first how you want to order: by the ton or by the cubic yard. Tons work well for stone, since weight is what the truck scales read. Yards work better for sand, soil and mulch, where volume is what fills a bed or a raised garden. To estimate, measure length times width times depth in feet, convert depth to a fraction of a foot, then convert to yards or ask us to convert it for you.

Bulk delivery drops the load where the truck can reach. Tell us about a narrow lane, a low branch, a soft shoulder or a steep drive when you order, because those change where the stone can go. Indiana Rock Supply delivers to New Albany, Georgetown, Greenville and Floyds Knobs, along with the rest of the county.

Choosing the Right Material

Materials shift as you cross county lines, because the ground shifts. Harrison County and Washington County share Floyd County's ground zone, that same mix of thin ridgetop soils and clay over limestone on the karst plain. The ground is similar, so the materials are similar, and the difference is usually the project: a long rural drive in Washington County wants the same compacted #53 stone base as one in Floyd County, with a coarser surface stone where the grade is steep.

Clark County spans more than one zone, covering the Southeast flats, lowlands and Ohio River hills as well as karst country. On flatter, lower ground, drainage moves slowly and a drain rock layer often matters more than extra base depth. On the hills, the priority flips back to a well-compacted base and slope protection. Match the material to the ground under it, not to the county line.

Get Your Floyd County Order Started

Figure your quantity with the calculator on the site, then match the material to the job: #53 stone for the base, #73 stone or driveway stone for the surface, drain rock where water sits. Send us your address, the material and the amount, and Indiana Rock Supply will set up delivery anywhere in Floyd County.

#53 Stone, Sand and Gravel Delivery in Floyd County, IN