304 Limestone, Sand and Gravel Delivery in Hamilton County, OH
Ohio Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Hamilton County, OH. Start with the load calculator to size your order by the ton or yard, then pick your material. For most jobs here, that material is 304 limestone.
We deliver across the county, from Cincinnati out to Harrison and Cleves. The ground under your project decides how much base you need, so order with that in mind.
Delivery across Hamilton County
Order online and choose your quantity by the ton or yard. The calculator helps you size the load before you check out, so you are not guessing at a number.
Pick your delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck brings the material to your site. We run loads to Cincinnati, Harrison, Cleves, Terrace Park, North Bend, Camp Dennison and Mount St. Joseph.
Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives. Bulk stone, sand and soil come loose, so the driver needs room to spread the pile where you want it.
Materials delivered in Hamilton County
Organize your order by the job in front of you. A driveway, a patio and a French drain each call for different stone.
304 limestone carries most of the weight in a base build. It is the aggregate base course under drives, pads and pavement. 411 limestone is the stabilized crushed aggregate that Ohio suppliers sell as driveway topping, a compacted course that sits over the 304.
For drainage, order #57 limestone or step down to #67 stone. Fine work around pipe and joints takes #8 crushed stone or #89 crushed stone. Heavy drainage and trench bottoms call for #4 crushed stone.
Decorative beds and dry creek beds take river rock or large river rock. Play areas and walkways take Natural Pea Gravel. Mason work and paver joints take mason sand, and slabs take washed sand.
Ground conditions across Hamilton County
Start from the soil, because it decides how the base performs. The flat uplands hold old, deeply weathered silty glacial soils with a dense, slow-draining subsoil underneath.
Water perches on that dense layer, so you get seasonal wetness and ponding after rain. An under-built base on ground like that pumps and shifts. Use clean stone for drainage and compact the base in lifts.
The steep hillsides toward the Ohio River are a different problem. Clayey till or thin soils sit over soft shale and limestone, and those slopes shed runoff fast.
Landslides happen on steep slopes over soft shale or clayey till, such as the Kope shale hillsides around Cincinnati, especially after long wet spells. Stream banks along the creeks erode too. Rip rap armors banks, culvert outlets and pond edges against that runoff.
Timing matters. Extended wet weather saturates both the flat uplands and the hillsides, so base and fill work goes best once the ground has drained, and hillside cuts are riskiest after long rainy spells.
Winters bring repeated freeze-thaw that heaves wet, poorly drained drives and pads. Frost depth is 30 inches in Cincinnati and Clermont County, set by each local building department.
Choosing the right material
Ground next door changes the order. Butler County and Warren County sit on the western and central Ohio till plains, with clay loam to silty clay till over gently rolling ground, low moraine ridges and flat wet swales between them.
That means more level ground and more wet swales to cross. There, a 304 limestone base with a 411 limestone topping handles most drives, and drainage stone matters where swales hold water.
Clermont County shares Hamilton County's ground zone, the Southwest Ohio river hills and old till uplands. The ground is similar, so the material choice is similar too.
In both counties, hillside work near the river leans on rip rap and clean drainage stone, while flat upland work leans on a compacted 304 base. Match the stone to the slope, not to the county line.
Order 304 limestone for your Hamilton County project
304 limestone is the base stone most Hamilton County work starts with, and Ohio Rock Supply delivers it with the sand, soil and decorative stone to finish the job. Size your load with the calculator, choose your delivery date, and place your order online.