Buy Fill Dirt in Hitterdal, MN

Minnesota Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Hitterdal, MN to contractors and homeowners working on the same short building season. Some orders are a full driveway rebuild with Class 5; others are a few yards of black dirt for a lawn that never took.

This page starts with soil and fill, because grading and bed prep come before any stone goes down on the flat ground around Hitterdal.

Materials for Hitterdal Projects

Grading and bed prep decide how the rest of a project holds up. On flat, poorly drained ground, the fill and soil you put down first set the level that everything else sits on.

Fill Dirt, sold around here as common borrow, raises grade and backfills a site before a Class 5 course goes on top. It is the bulk material that gets a low spot up to the height you want to build from.

Top Soil is what Minnesota calls black dirt. Screened or pulverized black dirt goes on lawns, sod beds and planting beds, and it needs to be spread over a graded surface rather than dumped on rough fill.

Garden Soil, often sold as garden mix, blends screened black dirt with compost for raised beds and planting areas. It is a growing medium, not a structural fill.

Under all of that sits the base course. Class 5 is the standard Minnesota base, and it carries driveways, parking pads and shed bases.

Driveway Gravel tops an existing drive or finishes over a compacted base, and Class 2 is the 3/4 inch crushed surfacing class where a tighter stone with fines is wanted.

Washed stone and sand round out a site. 3/4 Clear Rock is washed with the fines taken out, so it drains, and it serves drainage beds, trench backfill and the clean layer under a slab.

Drainage Rock handles French drains, footing drains and downspout runs. Washed Sand beds and levels under slabs and pavers, and Mason Sand goes into block work, paver joints and sandboxes.

Ground and Conditions in Hitterdal

Hitterdal sits in Clay County, on the flat bed of glacial Lake Agassiz across the Red River Valley and the northern lake plain. Deep silt and clay settled out of still water here, and that lake sediment is weak, frost susceptible and a poor source of aggregate.

Almost no fall crosses this ground, and a tight clay subgrade sits underneath. Meltwater and rain stay where they land instead of running off, so a graded site needs somewhere for that water to go before anything is built on it.

Spring is when it shows. The ground is still frozen when the snowmelt arrives, and the water has nowhere to drain.

Base, drive and paver work waits for the thaw and for the clay to dry out, and the building season is short at both ends.

Frost drives deep into clay that holds water, and that clay heaves as it thaws. The Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets five feet for its Zone I counties, which is a footing depth set by the building official rather than a target for a gravel base.

Wind is the other force at work on bare, flat, unsheltered fields, and it moves exposed soil. That is one more reason to get black dirt covered with seed or sod rather than left open.

Delivery to Hitterdal and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by dump truck and is tipped on site in one pile. Have the drop area clear and reachable, with nothing overhead and firm enough ground for a loaded truck.

You order online. Choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you check out.

Pick a delivery date at checkout and the truck brings it.

Delivery covers Hitterdal and the rest of Clay County, including Moorhead, Dilworth, Barnesville, Hawley and Glyndon.

Questions About Ordering in Hitterdal

Can I order material by the ton for delivery in Hitterdal?

Yes. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page carries a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.

You choose the quantity when you order and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the material on site in one pile.

What stone should I use for drainage in Hitterdal?

Use clean washed stone, because fines are what clog a drain. Drainage Rock, usually a 1 1/2 inch clear rock here, suits French drains, footing drains and downspout runs.

3/4 Clear Rock works for drainage beds and trench backfill. Both are washed with the fines taken out, unlike Class 5, which keeps them.

Order Fill, Soil and Stone for Your Hitterdal Project

Grading, bed prep, a new lawn, a driveway base or a drainage run: Minnesota Rock Supply delivers the fill, black dirt, Class 5 and washed stone those jobs call for. Order online, choose your quantity by the ton or yard, and pick your delivery date at checkout.