Gravel, Stone and Soil for Sherburne County, MN

Minnesota Rock Supply brings gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Sherburne County, MN to Elk River, Big Lake, Zimmerman, Becker and Clear Lake. Order Class 5 by the ton or the yard and a dump truck tips it on site.

Class 5 is the Minnesota base course, and it leads here because it is what drives, pads and road base actually get built on. Everything else follows from the ground it sits on.

Ground Conditions Across Sherburne County

Across the East central sand plain and St. Croix moraine, rain soaks in almost as fast as it falls and the water table sits close beneath the sand.

Low ground and lake margins stay wet while sandy ridges dry out.

Tight red till on the moraine sheds water instead of taking it. On a slope, that means runoff arrives fast and a bare graded lot bleeds sand until something covers it.

Spring load limits go up on Central zone roads from March into late April or May. Schedule a bulk drop around the thaw, not through it.

Cold winters and a hard spring thaw work on drives and walks in cycles rather than once a season. Sand drains and refreezes quickly, so the surface moves with each one.

The Minnesota Residential Code footing table puts Sherburne County at a frost depth of 3 feet 6 inches. That figure is a footing depth set by the building official, not a target for a gravel base.

Materials Delivered in Sherburne County

Materials group by what they do: base, washed stone, sand, soil and decorative.

Base Materials

Class 5 is the standard Minnesota base course.

Class 5 goes under driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and road base. County highway departments and cities write their own standards against the same class numbers, so Class 5 is the name a Sherburne County inspector expects to see.

Driveway Gravel covers Class 2, the surfacing class, and driveway gravel sold for topping an existing drive or finishing over a compacted base. Class 2 is a tighter 3/4 inch crushed aggregate with fines, sold as granite, buff limestone or red limestone depending on the quarry.

Crusher Run is crushed rock with the fines left in, for base and drives that need to bind and compact. Minnesota yards sell it by class or by a minus size more often than by the name crusher run.

Washed Stone and Drainage Rock

3/4 Clear Rock is washed with the fines taken out, the Minnesota meaning of clear rock as against Class 5, which keeps them. It goes in drainage beds, construction entrances and trench backfill.

Clear rock also covers foundation rock, radon rock and under-slab rock: the clean washed layer under basement slabs, around footing drains and in the gas-permeable layer beneath a passive radon system.

Drainage Rock is usually a 1 1/2 inch clear rock in Minnesota. It serves French drains, drywells, footing and foundation drains, downspout runs and sewer bedding.

3/8" Crushed Stone handles fine drainage, pipe bedding and a thin topping over a compacted base. It is sold as granite chips or as a red or buff limestone chip.

RipRap is classed under Spec 3601 and armours lakeshore, streambank, culvert outlets and slopes against ice, wave and spring runoff.

Sand, Soil and Mulch

Mason Sand is for brick and block work, paver joints, sandboxes and play areas. Washed Sand, also sold as concrete sand, beds and levels under slabs and pavers.

Top Soil is black dirt in Minnesota, usually bought screened or pulverized.

Fill Dirt is common borrow for raising grade and backfill before a Class 5 course goes down. Garden Soil is a garden mix of screened black dirt and compost for raised beds.

Shredded Mulch covers beds, tree rings and slopes, holding moisture through the dry stretch of a Minnesota summer.

Decorative Stone

Granite Fines, also called screenings, bed pavers, flagstone and patios and compact garden paths. Minnesota granite fines come from the Crushed Stone quarried in the St.

Cloud belt.

3/8" Natural Pea Gravel, or pea rock, suits walkways, play areas, drainage and exposed aggregate work. Minnesota River Rock and Large River Rock fill decorative beds, borders, dry creek beds and rock mulch around foundations.

Delivery Across Sherburne County

Order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator so you can size the load.

A dump truck tips the whole load in one pile on site. Have the drop spot clear, reachable and firm enough for a loaded truck before it arrives.

Delivery covers Elk River, Big Lake, Zimmerman, Becker and Clear Lake and the ground between them. Bulk loads arrive as one tipped pile, so pick the spot with that in mind.

Choosing the Right Material

Sherburne County sits on the East central sand plain and St. Croix moraine, with clean sand and gravel in the outwash and sandy loam over till on the ridges.

Neighbouring counties differ in ways that change what you order.

Anoka County spans several grounds inside one short drive: the Anoka sand plain, Grantsburg lobe till, Des Moines lobe till and river terraces. Where till sheds water instead of soaking it, drainage stone and surface shape matter more than base depth.

Wright County and Benton County share the Central Minnesota moraine and granite belt, with granite at or near the surface and worked quarries along the Mississippi and Sauk rivers. That ground is much the same as what you build on here.

Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Sherburne County

Drives, parking pads, patios, paver walks, drainage runs, under-slab work, lawns and planting beds all start with the right material. Minnesota Rock Supply delivers Class 5, washed stone, sand, black dirt and decorative rock across Sherburne County.