Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Houston, MN

Minnesota Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Houston, MN to your driveway, garden or building site. Class 5 is the base course this part of the state builds on, and it goes down under drives, parking pads and shed floors.

Houston sits in Houston County, in the bluff country of Southeast Minnesota. Loess and thin residual soil sit over limestone and dolostone here, so what you put under a slab or a drive matters more than it does on deep glacial ground.

Delivery to Houston and the Surrounding Area

You order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Every product page carries a calculator that helps you size the load before you check out.

Choose a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the material on your site in one pile. It stays where it lands, so pick a spot you can work from with a wheelbarrow or a machine.

Minnesota Rock Supply delivers across Houston County, including La Crescent, Caledonia, Spring Grove, Hokah and Brownsville. If your project sits on a bluff road or a valley floor, the truck still needs a clear approach to reach the drop point.

Materials for Houston Projects

Decorative rock does more here than dress up a bed. On a slope above a valley, ground cover holds soil in place and cuts the wash that follows a hard rain.

Minnesota River Rock is round washed stone for beds, borders and rock mulch around a foundation. Large River Rock handles dry creek beds and heavier decorative work where a bed meets a slope.

For a driveway, start with Class 5 as the compacted base and finish with Driveway Gravel or Class 2 over the top.

For a patio or a paver walk, bedding is the layer that shows. Granite Fines bed pavers, flagstone and patio stone, and they compact into a firm garden path.

For a drain, use clean washed stone with the fines taken out. Drainage Rock runs French drains, footing drains and downspout runs, and clear rock works under a slab or in a trench.

Beds and lawns take black dirt and cover. Screened Top Soil goes under sod and into planting beds, and Shredded Mulch holds moisture through the dry stretch of summer.

Ground and Conditions in Houston

This is Driftless bluff and karst country, and the ground is unforgiving of a base that was not built to depth. Loess sits over residual soil on limestone, dolostone and sandstone, thin on the ridge tops and deep in the valleys.

Water on these slopes runs off fast and then disappears into sinkholes and fractures instead of soaking in evenly. Surface flow is flashy, valley floors flood quickly, and a downspout aimed at a sinkhole goes straight to groundwater.

That is why a drive or a pad here needs a compacted Class 5 base rather than a skim of stone over bare soil. Under-built base on silty ground moves when the ground thaws and freezes again.

Rill and gully erosion cuts steep loess slopes after heavy rain, and roadcuts slump.

The working season here runs from the thaw into late autumn, and spring load limits go on Southeast zone roads in early March and come off in April. Plan heavy deliveries around that window.

Build Your Houston Project on Class 5

Class 5 is the base this market knows by name, and it is what holds a drive, a pad or a shed floor together on bluff country ground. Choose your material, order by the ton or the yard, and have it tipped on site.