Can I order material for a commercial or contractor job?

Yes. You order online the same way for a contractor job as for a residential one, choosing a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Class 5, so a commercial order matches the plan.

When is the best time of year to order base material in McKenzie County?

Work in the Little Missouri Badlands follows the weather more than the calendar. Wet clay tracks and approaches turn slick fast, and the season closes early, so plan around a dry window. Long, severe winters bring deep ground frost and a hard spring thaw that heaves and softens drives and township roads.

What is the difference between topsoil and fill dirt?

Topsoil, called black dirt here, is screened soil for lawns, grade repair and bed prep. Fill dirt is for raising grade, filling low ground and backfilling before a gravel course goes down. Order Top Soil where you are growing something, and Fill Dirt where you are building up ground under a base.

McKenzie County, ND Aggregate and Rock Delivery

North Dakota Rock Supply delivers gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in McKenzie County, ND. Class 5 is the base gravel most drives, pads and shop floors start from here.

Work in this part of the state follows the weather more than the calendar. Wet clay tracks and approaches turn slick fast, and the season closes early, so timing a load matters.

Materials delivered in McKenzie County

Class 5, also called Class 5 gravel or Cl 5, is the standard North Dakota base gravel.

Cities and counties write those class numbers into their own street specifications. That is how material is described and ordered here.

Order Class 5 for driveways, parking pads and shop bases.

Class 13, also called surface gravel, is a binding, blade-friendly gravel for surfacing an approach, lane or gravel drive. Order Class 13 where you want a surface course rather than a full base.

Scoria, also called red scoria or clinker, is burned lignite clinker from the west of the state. It is the red surfacing North Dakotans picture for paths, yards, lanes and parking areas.

Order Scoria for those jobs.

Washed rock, also called 1 inch washed rock or drain rock, goes into drain tile beds, sump discharge, downspout runs and foundation drains. Order Washed Rock for clean drainage work.

Pea rock, also called Natural Pea Gravel or 3/8 inch pea rock, covers walkways, play areas, dog runs and pipe bedding. North Dakota suppliers say pea rock more often than Natural Pea Gravel.

Order 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel by that name.

3/4 inch crushed rock handles drainage, bin and tank pads, pole barn floors and construction entrances. Order 3/4" Crushed Stone for those.

Riprap, also called rip rap or Grade II riprap, armors coulee and river banks, culvert outlets, dam faces and reservoir shoreline against spring runoff and wave action. Order Riprap for bank protection.

Black dirt, also called screened black dirt or topsoil, covers lawns, grade repair and bed prep. Order Top Soil for that work.

Delivery across McKenzie County

You order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load before you check out.

Pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site. Delivery covers Watford City, Mandaree, Alexander, Arnegard, Keene, Cartwright and Grassy Butte.

Ground conditions across McKenzie County

Across the Little Missouri Badlands, the ground is deeply eroded soft sandstone, siltstone and bentonitic clay of the Fort Union beds. It is cut into buttes and short steep ridges.

Bands of hard red clinker, called scoria here, run where lignite seams burned and baked the rock above them. A thin base over this ground shows its failure fast.

Short, steep slopes shed water almost at once, so runoff is flashy and gullies cut quickly. Bentonitic clay swells and turns slick when wet, then shrinks and cracks as it dries.

That drives rapid gully and rill cutting on bare slopes and slumping on the clay. Riprap and clean drainage stone are the fix on banks and outlets.

Winters here are long and severe, with deep ground frost and a hard spring thaw that heaves and softens gravel drives, approaches and township roads. Frost depth is set by the city or county rather than by a statewide table.

Choosing the right material

Golden Valley County sits on the same Little Missouri Badlands ground as McKenzie County. The eroded Fort Union beds, the scoria bands and the swelling clay are the same, so the base and drainage choices carry over.

Dunn County ground differs. It is soft Fort Union sandstone, siltstone, claystone and lignite under a thin soil cover, with swelling clay in places and only patchy glacial material.

That means a Dunn County base can meet the same swelling clay, but sand and gravel on the Missouri River terraces change what drainage looks like there.

Mountrail County ground is different again. It is hummocky stagnation moraine, stony and uneven till with pockets of sand and gravel in kames and eskers, and prairie potholes by the thousand.

Stony till and potholes change the base choice: uneven ground needs a leveling course before a gravel surface goes down.

Order your load for McKenzie County

Size your load by the ton or by the yard, then check the calculator on each product page before you order. Class 5, Class 13, scoria, washed rock and black dirt all deliver across McKenzie County.

Place your order online and a dump truck tips it on site.

Order Class 5 and Crushed Stone in McKenzie County, ND