Wells County, ND Gravel and Landscape Rock Delivery

North Dakota Rock Supply brings gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Wells County, ND to driveways, pads, drains and yards. Start with Class 5 if you are building or rebuilding a base.

Size the load with the calculator on any product page, then pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard.

This is Drift Prairie ground: rolling glacial till with stone and boulders worked through it. A base that goes in thin on that ground shows it fast.

Ground Conditions Across Wells County

Drift Prairie till carries stone and boulders, and the moraine and ice-thrust hills make for washboard ground. Bands of sand and gravel sit in the old meltwater channels.

That mix is why an under-built base fails early here.

Sloughs and pothole wetlands hold snowmelt on the flats. Till with a tight subsoil drains slowly, so water sits where it lands.

Runoff that does move concentrates into the deep, steep-walled coulees.

Wind moves bare ground, coulees cut gullies, and banks scour after thaw and heavy rain. Long, severe winters drive frost deep, then a hard spring thaw heaves and softens gravel drives, approaches and township roads.

Frost depth here runs about 4 to 5 feet, set by the city or county rather than by a statewide table. Work runs from the end of the spring thaw into late fall.

Frozen ground stops compaction, and spring load restrictions slow hauling while the frost comes out.

Materials Delivered in Wells County

Order by project. A driveway, a patio and a drain each pull a different material.

Class 5 is the standard North Dakota base gravel.

Cities and counties write those class numbers into their own street specifications.

Class 13 is the surfacing gravel for an approach, lane or gravel drive where you want a binding, blade-friendly layer rather than a full base course. Scoria, also called red scoria or clinker, is the red burned lignite clinker from the west of the state, and it surfaces paths, yards and lanes.

Washed rock goes into drain tile beds, sump discharge, downspout runs and foundation drains. Pea rock suits walkways, play areas, dog runs and pipe bedding.

Black dirt covers lawns and grade repair, and riprap armors coulee and river banks, culvert outlets and reservoir shoreline against spring runoff.

Choosing the Right Material

Ground in this part of the Drift Prairie is rolling glacial till with stone and boulders, washboard moraine and ice-thrust hills, and bands of sand and gravel in the old meltwater channels.

Benson County sits in the Devils Lake Basin, where rolling glacial till rings a closed basin with lake silt, clay and salt-affected ground on shorelines. That finer, salt-affected ground changes the drainage choice: a base there has to shed water that will not move through the soil.

Pierce County sits in the Souris Basin on the flat bed of glacial Lake Souris, with clay and silt near the middle, wave-washed till around the rim and wind-blown delta sand over the southern half of the old lake plain. The delta sand drains; the clay and silt in the middle do not.

That contrast decides how much drainage stone a pad needs.

Kidder County lies on the Missouri Coteau, hummocky stagnation moraine with stony, uneven till, pockets of sand and gravel in kames and eskers, and prairie potholes by the thousand. Uneven, stony ground asks for a thicker, more uniform base course to bridge the high and low spots.

For a driveway, start with Class 5 and finish with Class 13 where you want a binding surface. For a patio or walkway, Stone Screenings bed pavers and flagstone, and 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel tops walkways and play areas.

For a drain, use Washed Rock in the bed and run it to daylight. River Rock suits decorative beds and borders, and rock mulch holds through North Dakota wind better than bark.

Shredded Mulch still works for tree rings and shelterbelt plantings, holding moisture through a dry, windy summer.

Delivery Across Wells County

You order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator to help size the load before checkout.

Pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site.

Bulk delivery covers Harvey, Fessenden, Bowdon, Sykeston, Chaseley, Hurdsfield and Cathay, along with the surrounding township roads and rural addresses. The truck tips the material in one pile where it lands.

Have the spot clear before the truck arrives.

Order Class 5 and More for Wells County

Class 5 is the base most Wells County ground asks for, and it is the material to start with on a driveway, a pad or a shop floor. Add Class 13 for a binding surface over it.

Order online, size the load with the calculator, and have it delivered.