Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Charlotte, IA

Iowa Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Charlotte, IA to your driveway, garden or job site. Start with the calculator on each product page to size your load.

Class A roadstone is the crushed limestone base this part of Iowa builds on, with the fines left in so it binds. Around it sit the decorative stones, sands and soils that finish a yard.

Delivery to Charlotte and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick your quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you check out.

Choose a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the material on site as one pile. Charlotte sits in Clinton County, and delivery covers the rest of the county too.

That includes Clinton, DeWitt, Camanche, Wheatland and Grand Mound. Whether the drop is a farm lane outside town or a lot inside Charlotte, the load arrives the same way.

Materials for Charlotte Projects

Decorative rock does the finishing work on a Charlotte yard. Beds, borders, dry creek beds and ground cover all lean on stone that looks good and holds up.

River Rock is rounded gravel washed out of the Missouri and Mississippi valleys. It suits decorative beds, borders and dry creek beds.

Large River Rock is the oversized version. Use it for dry creek beds, splash pads and heavier decorative or bank work.

3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is small, smooth and easy underfoot. It works for walkways, play areas, patio bedding and small drainage runs.

Shredded Mulch holds moisture in beds and tree rings through a dry Iowa August. Windbreak plantings benefit from it as well.

Top Soil is screened black dirt, the dark prairie soil Iowa yards are known for. It handles lawn repair, grading and bed prep.

For a driveway, a patio or a drain, the base course comes first. Class A roadstone is the 3/4 inch crushed limestone that carries a drive, a parking pad or a shed base.

Class A Roadstone compacts into a firm surface because the fines stay in the mix. 1 Inch Roadstone is the coarser grade for a new drive or a lane that carries heavy equipment.

Ground and Conditions in Charlotte

Ground across the Mississippi River corridor runs to sand, gravel, silt and clay on the terraces and floodplain. Sandy blow ground sits on the older terraces, with till and loess uplands behind the bluff line.

That mix matters before anything goes on top. Sandy ground drains fast, and a base laid over it without enough stone can shift under a loaded truck.

Low ground near the floodplain barely drains at all. Spring snowmelt from the upper basin raises the river and backs water up the tributary mouths long after local rain stops.

On low lying work, the spring river crest has to pass before a base course goes in. Upland work follows the ordinary thaw to fall freeze pattern instead.

Repeated freeze and thaw heaves gravel drives and river road surfaces each spring. Frost depth is commonly 42 inches, and the local building official sets footing depth.

Erosion follows the same pattern. River bank cutting and flood scour work on the banks, and gully erosion runs on the loess covered bluffs above the valley.

Riprap armors stream banks, culvert outlets, pond edges and slopes against spring runoff. It is angular stone sized to hold where water pushes hardest.

Order Class A Roadstone and Decorative Stone in Charlotte

Class A roadstone is the crushed limestone base that carries a drive, a pad or a lane in Charlotte. Around it, river rock, Natural Pea Gravel, mulch and black dirt finish the beds, paths and lawn.

Order online and pick your delivery date at checkout.