Order Base Course and Crushed Stone in Colfax County, NM

New Mexico Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Colfax County, NM. Base course is the material to start with here, the compacted layer that carries a drive, a parking pad or a slab base.

You order online by the ton or the yard, pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck tips the load on site. Raton, Springer, Cimarron, Maxwell, Eagle Nest and Miami are all covered.

Delivery across Colfax County

Ordering runs through the site. Choose your material, size the load by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Each product page has a calculator if you need a quantity.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile where you want it. From there it is your site work.

Delivery covers Raton, Springer, Cimarron, Maxwell, Eagle Nest, Miami and the ground between them.

Materials delivered in Colfax County

Base course is what New Mexico calls road base. Section 303 allows crushed stone, crushed or screened gravel, caliche, sand and recycled asphalt or concrete pavement.

It sets two gradation bands, Type I and Type II, both passing a 1 inch sieve. City specifications follow the same definition, for example Rio Rancho Section 310.

Base course is a compacted base for driveways, parking pads, and slab and shed bases.

Natural Pea Gravel covers walkways, dog runs and drainage beds, and it works as rounded ground cover in xeriscape planting. Washed sand beds and levels under slabs and flatwork.

Fill dirt raises grade and backfills before a base course lift goes down.

For drainage trenches, #57 stone and #67 stone are the numbered sizes yards sell by inch and color. #4 crushed stone handles heavy drainage and trench bottoms, and #8 and #89 crushed stone cover fine drainage and paver joints.

Ground conditions across Colfax County

Colfax County spans more than one ground region. In the Sangre de Cristo and northern high country around Raton, Cimarron, Eagle Nest and Miami, the working season runs roughly late spring through October.

Frozen ground stops compaction all winter and the high valleys thaw last.

Soils there are Stone Screenings and stony mountain soil on the slopes, with sandy clay alluvium and caliche in the basins below. Snowmelt comes off the high country in spring, then monsoon cloudbursts run off steep slopes and shallow soil.

Water arrives faster than that ground will take it once the surface has crusted. Steep slope runoff and arroyo bank scour after storms are the erosion to plan for, and rip rap armors banks, culvert outlets and dry creek headers.

On the eastern side, around Springer and Maxwell, the season runs spring through late fall. Deep sandy and loamy plains soils sit over the Ogallala, with a cemented caliche caprock under much of the Llano Estacado and blow sand across the dune country.

Wind erosion comes first there: open plains, dry springs and loose sand. Storm runoff then cuts the caprock escarpment and the Canadian River breaks, and playa margins scour after heavy rain.

Frost depth is commonly 18 to 24 inches on the northern plains and less on the southern Llano. The county building official sets footing depth.

Repeated freeze and thaw works gravel drives loose every spring.

Choosing the right material

Union County sits in the Northeast, on the same Eastern High Plains, Llano Estacado and Canadian breaks ground that Colfax County's eastern side shares. Deep sandy and loamy plains soils over the Ogallala, a cemented caliche caprock, blow sand and stony basalt and shale in the Canadian River breaks.

Where the ground is the same, the base and drainage choice is the same. Colfax County's high country is the difference: stony mountain soil, steep slopes and snowmelt runoff call for rip rap and drain rock on top of the base course work.

Order base course and gravel in Colfax County

New Mexico Rock Supply delivers base course, crushed stone, sand and topsoil across Colfax County, including Raton, Springer, Cimarron, Maxwell, Eagle Nest and Miami. Choose your material, size the load by the ton or the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Order online and a dump truck tips the load at your site.