Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Dixon, IA

If you are pricing gravel and aggregate delivery in Dixon, IA, the first question is usually what goes under the slab or the drive. Iowa Rock Supply sells Class A roadstone, washed stone, sand, soil and fill in bulk, ordered online and tipped at your site.

Dixon sits in Scott County, on ground that runs from sandy river terraces to heavier upland soils. That mix decides what your base has to do.

Delivery to Dixon and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you commit.

A dump truck tips the material in one pile at the address you give. From there it is your site and your crew.

Iowa Rock Supply delivers across Dixon and the rest of Scott County, including Davenport, Bettendorf, Eldridge, Le Claire and Walcott.

Materials for Dixon Projects

Raising grade and building pads is where most Dixon jobs start, and that work begins with fill and sub-base, not with a pretty surface stone. Get the level right underneath and everything above it behaves.

For raising low ground or backfilling before a base course goes down, order Fill Dirt. It builds the pad up to the height you want so the roadstone has something solid to sit on.

Over that, Class A Roadstone is the standard Iowa base course: 3/4 inch crushed limestone with the fines left in, so it binds and compacts under a drive, a parking pad, a shed base or a farm lane.

Where a new drive or a lane carrying heavy equipment needs a coarser start, 1 Inch Roadstone goes down first as the lower course. A finer surface course then goes over it.

For bedding and leveling under slabs and pavers, Washed Sand gives you a clean, free draining grade. Mason Sand is the finer choice for brick and block mortar, paver joints and play areas.

Around the buildings, Clean Rock is washed and open graded, so water moves straight through it. It suits subdrains, drainage tile backfill, pipe bedding and the backfill behind a retaining wall.

Ground and Conditions in Dixon

Across the Mississippi River corridor, the ground runs to sand, gravel, silt and clay on the river terraces and floodplain, with sandy blow ground on the older terraces. Older till and loess uplands rise behind the bluff line.

That split matters. Sandy terraces drain fast, so a base laid on them can lose its fines and go loose.

The floodplain barely drains at all, so a pad built there holds water instead of shedding it.

Either way, an under-built base shows up first. Fill Dirt brings the pad to grade, then Class A Roadstone compacts over it and carries the load.

Spring is the other factor. Snowmelt from the whole upper basin raises the river and backs water up the tributary mouths, flooding low ground long after local rain has stopped.

Low lying work waits for the crest to pass before base goes in.

Cold winters bring repeated freeze-thaw, enough to heave gravel drives and river road surfaces each spring. Frost depth in the corridor is commonly 42 inches, and the local building official sets footing depth.

That is a footing figure, not a target for digging a gravel base.

Order Class A Roadstone for Your Dixon Job

Class A roadstone is the base course that holds up a drive, a pad or a lane in Dixon, and it starts with the right fill underneath. Order online, size the load on the product page, and pick your delivery date at checkout.

Iowa Rock Supply will tip it at your site in Scott County.