Gravel, Stone and Soil for Swift County, MN

You need gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Swift County, MN, and you want to know what to put down. Minnesota Rock Supply sells bulk material online and delivers it by the ton.

Start with Class 5 for a drive, a parking pad or a shed base. It is the standard Minnesota base course, and it is what most ground here wants before anything else.

That matters because the ground across this part of the state is tight. Class 5 gives you a compacting course over it instead of a surface that pumps and ruts.

Ground Conditions Across Swift County

Swift County sits on Southern and western prairie till. That ground is gray, calcareous Des Moines lobe till, loamy to clayey, and it carries shale brought down from the Dakotas.

Deep black prairie soil sits over it, and the surface runs hummocky with pothole basins across much of it.

Tight till and almost no fall drain slowly. Most farmed ground here runs on tile, and closed basins hold water until it drains or evaporates.

Thaw and early summer thunderstorms are when yards and drives are at their worst.

Erosion comes as sheet, rill and gully cutting on bare cropland and graded lots after heavy summer storms. Bank cutting follows on the rivers of this region.

The working season is long by Minnesota standards, running from the thaw into late autumn. Spring load limits go up on South and Central zone roads in early March and come off in April.

Winters bring repeated freeze and thaw, and heaving is worst on tight, shale-rich till where water cannot drain away before it freezes. The Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets 3 feet 6 inches for its Zone II counties.

That is a footing depth set by the building official, not a base depth, and no frost figure was researched for Swift County.

Materials Delivered in Swift County

What you order follows the job. A drive wants a compacting base course.

A patio wants bedding that locks flat. A drain wants clean washed stone with the fines taken out.

Class 5 is the one to understand first.

Class 5 and Class 6 are the base classes, Class 1 and Class 2 are surfacing, and Class 3 and Class 4 are subbase.

County highway departments and cities write their own standards against those same class numbers.

Order Class 5 for a drive, a pad or road base, and step up to Driveway Gravel when you want a tighter 3/4 inch crushed surface.

Choosing the Right Material

Ground tells you what a base has to do, so it is worth knowing how the counties around Swift compare.

Stevens County shares this ground region, the Southern and western prairie till. The soil, the shale and the slow drainage are the same, so the base and drainage choices are the same.

Kandiyohi County and Pope County sit on the Central Minnesota moraine and granite belt. That ground is Alexandria moraine and Grantsburg lobe till over granite, with granite at or near the surface and outwash sand and gravel along the river valleys.

So the difference is real. On that moraine ground, sand and gravel outwash drains freely and granite is close at hand.

On the tight till here, water sits and the shale-rich subgrade holds it.

Where a neighbor's ground drains freely, a clean open stone can carry water away. On the till here, that same clean stone under a drive leaves nothing for the surface to compact against, so the fines-bearing Class 5 course does the work instead.

Match the material to the job: Class 5 for a base, Driveway Gravel for a drive surface, Crusher Run where the rock needs to bind, Granite Fines for paver bedding, and Drainage Rock for a French drain or a drywell. For a walkway, Walkway Gravel gives a finer surface that compacts underfoot.

Delivery Across Swift County

You order online and a dump truck tips the load on site. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.

You pick a delivery date at checkout.

Coverage runs across the county, including Benson, Appleton, Kerkhoven, Murdock, Danvers, Clontarf and Holloway.

Order Class 5 and Bulk Aggregate for Your Swift County Job

Class 5 is the base course most ground in Swift County needs, over tight prairie till that drains slowly and heaves in a hard winter. Add clean washed stone for drainage, black dirt for planting beds, or riprap for a shoreline.

Order Minnesota Rock Supply material online by the ton or yard, size the load on the product page calculator, and pick your delivery date at checkout.