Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in New Knoxville, OH

Building a pad or raising a low spot? For gravel and aggregate delivery in New Knoxville, OH, Ohio Rock Supply starts most jobs with 304 limestone. It is the base stone this part of Auglaize County runs on, and it compacts hard over the clay loam till that sits under so much of the ground here.

Work out how much you need with the calculator, order online, and a dump truck brings it to your site.

Delivery to New Knoxville and the Surrounding Area

Ordering online keeps the whole job simple. Pick your material, enter your quantity by the ton or the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout. The truck then brings the load to your site.

Not sure on quantity? Use the calculator before you check out. It sizes the load from the area you are covering, so you are not guessing at the number.

Ohio Rock Supply delivers across New Knoxville and Auglaize County, including Wapakoneta, St. Marys, Minster, New Bremen and Waynesfield. If your job is in one of those places, the same online order works.

Materials for New Knoxville Projects

Most work here starts below the surface. Whether you are raising grade for a shed pad or building up a driveway that sinks every spring, the fill and sub-base layers do the real work. Get those right and the surface lasts.

For a building pad or a low, wet spot, start with Fill Dirt to bring the grade up. Then cap it with 304 Aggregate Base.

For a driveway, 304 limestone goes down first as the base course. On top, 411 Stone packs tight as a topping because it carries stone up to about an inch mixed with fines. If you would rather surface the drive with clean stone, Driveway Gravel is the practical pick.

For a patio or paver area, the layers stack the same way: 304 limestone, then 411 limestone for bedding, then a thin, level course of Screenings to set the pavers on.

Drainage is the other job that comes up often. Drain Rock handles French drains, downspout runs and foundation drains. For bank armoring along a ditch or culvert outlet, RipRap is the heavy stone that holds against moving water.

Ground and Conditions in New Knoxville

New Knoxville sits in the western and central Ohio till plains. The ground is glacial till, clay loam to silty clay, laid over gently rolling land with low moraine ridges and flat swales between them.

That clayey till drains slowly. After spring rain and snowmelt, water ponds in the flat spots until ditches or tile clear it. Sand and gravel in the larger river valleys drain quickly by comparison.

This is why an under-built base fails here. If you lay 304 limestone over soft, saturated clay without firming the subgrade first, the stone pumps and the surface settles. Build the fill layer up, compact it in lifts, and the base holds.

Timing matters too. Base, driveway and paver work starts once the ground thaws and the flats dry out in spring, then runs into late fall. Frozen or saturated clay will not compact well, so working it wet wastes the material.

Cold winters also bring repeated freeze-thaw, which heaves wet clay under drives and patios and lifts shallow posts and pads. Frost depth runs 32 inches in Columbus and Dayton, set by each local building department. Erosion shows up as stream and ditch bank scour after heavy rain, washing of bare graded soil, and slumping on steep valley sides.

Order 304 Limestone and Base Material in New Knoxville

For pads, drives and any job that starts with grade, 304 limestone is the material to order in New Knoxville. Ohio Rock Supply delivers it, along with fill dirt, 411 stone, screenings and drainage stone, across Auglaize County. Size your load with the calculator, pick a delivery date, and place your order online.