Order Class 5 and Crushed Stone in Stark County, ND
North Dakota Rock Supply sells gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Stark County, ND. Class 5 is the base most of this ground asks for, because soft Fort Union sandstone, siltstone and claystone sit under a thin soil cover across the Missouri Slope.
That cover is why a pad or lane here needs more than a skim of rock. Swelling clay shows up in places too, and it moves when it takes on water.
Delivery across Stark County
Order online and pick your delivery date at checkout. You choose the quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page carries a calculator to help you size the load.
A dump truck tips the material on site in one pile. The driver does not place or spread it, so pick a spot that keeps the pile clear of the work.
Delivery covers Dickinson, Richardton, Belfield, South Heart, Gladstone, Taylor and Lefor. If your lane or approach sits outside those places, the same online checkout still takes your order.
Materials delivered in Stark County
Class 5 is the standard North Dakota base gravel. Locally it is also called Class 5 gravel, Cl 5 or crushed gravel base.
Section 816, Table 816-01 sets the gradations for Classes 2, 3, 3M, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 13, and Section 302 names Class 5 as the traffic service aggregate.
Use Class 5 for driveways, parking pads, and shop or shed bases. Order Class 5 when you want a base that ties together under a blade.
Class 13 is the surfacing gravel: the blade-friendly material for an approach, a lane or a gravel drive. Order Class 13 where you want a binding surface rather than a full base course.
Scoria is the red burned-lignite clinker from the west of the state, and it is what North Dakotans picture when they say scoria. Order Scoria for paths, yards, lanes and parking areas.
Washed rock goes where water has to move. Order Washed Rock for drain tile beds, sump discharge, downspout runs and foundation drains.
For a finer drainage or bedding stone, order 3/8" Crushed Stone as pipe bedding or a topping course over compacted base.
Black dirt, which is what screened topsoil is called here, covers lawns, grade repair and bed prep. Order Top Soil for that work, or Fill Dirt when you are raising grade or backfilling before a gravel course goes down.
Riprap is graded Grade I, II and III here, not classed. Order Riprap to armor a coulee bank, a culvert outlet or a shoreline against spring runoff.
Ground conditions across Stark County
Base, driveway and paver work runs from the end of the spring thaw into late fall. Frozen ground stops compaction through the winter, and spring load restrictions slow hauling while the frost comes out.
Long, severe winters with deep ground frost are part of working here, and the thaw heaves and softens gravel drives, approaches and township roads. Frost depth runs about 4 to 5 feet, and the city or county sets the figure rather than a statewide table.
Across the Missouri Slope, drainage is well developed, so water moves fast down the draws and coulees instead of standing. The problem is runoff arriving all at once and cutting a drive apart rather than ponding on it.
That runoff shapes how material gets used. A drainage layer and clean stone under an outlet carry water away from a pad or lane instead of letting it sit against the edges.
Gully cutting in soft shale and claystone, slumping on steep bluffs and cut slopes, and shoreline erosion along the Missouri all point to the same answer. Where water is concentrated, use armoring stone rather than a fines-bearing material.
Choosing the right material
Ground regions differ from Stark County in useful ways. Billings County and Slope County sit on the Little Missouri Badlands, deeply eroded soft sandstone, siltstone and bentonitic clay of the Fort Union beds, cut into buttes and short steep ridges.
Those beds carry bands of hard red clinker, called scoria here, where lignite seams burned and baked the rock above them. Steep cut slopes under that clay mean slope protection matters as much as the base itself.
Morton County shares the Missouri Slope ground, so the soil, the swelling clay and the thin cover are the same story as Stark County. Base and drainage choices there follow the same reasoning as here.
Order gravel and stone for your Stark County site
North Dakota Rock Supply delivers Class 5, Class 13, scoria, washed rock, black dirt, riprap and more across Stark County, including Dickinson, Richardton, Belfield, South Heart, Gladstone, Taylor and Lefor. Order online when you are ready for a load.