#57 Crushed Stone Delivery in Lee's Summit, MO

Lee's Summit anchors the southeast corner of the Kansas City metro, and #57 crushed stone delivery here ships and prices strictly by the ton for driveway bases, drainage work and retaining wall backfill. New subdivisions continue to spread toward the edges of the city while older streets closer to the historic downtown carry a different mix of soil and grading, and both settings regularly call for a compacted stone base that raw clay cannot supply by itself. What follows covers the city's terrain, where this stone gets used, how fast it arrives, how many tons a job typically takes and how the ton pricing is put together.

Lee's Summit Terrain, Growth and What's Close By

Lee's Summit carries a population of about 106,000 and sits in the Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas metro area, close enough to several other communities that delivery routes into the city stay short. Independence is roughly 11 miles to the north, Belton sits about 15 miles to the west, Kansas City itself is around 22 miles away, and Overland Park across the state line in Kansas is within about 18 miles. The ground here mixes clay with rocky subsoil left over from the region's limestone base, and it drains slowly enough that standing water after a storm is a regular complaint on newer subdivision lots built on graded fill.

How Fast Delivery Moves Around Lee's Summit

Delivery timing runs on the same three tiers as pricing. Orders under 8 tons generally ship within 1 to 2 business days, orders between 8 and 14 tons typically move same day or the next business day, and the largest orders of 15 tons or more get top scheduling priority along with free delivery. Delivery in Lee's Summit lists current service windows for the city, along with notes on access for newer subdivisions where construction traffic can affect timing.

Common Jobs for #57 Crushed Stone in Lee's Summit

The most common order around Lee's Summit is a compacted base under a new gravel or paver driveway, since the clay and rocky subsoil found across much of the city need a firm layer before anything else goes down. It also works well in French drains, footing trenches and behind retaining walls on graded lots where water tends to collect after heavy rain, a frequent issue on newer subdivisions built on reshaped ground. Property owners with gravel equipment pads or parking areas favor it for the same reason contractors do: it compacts into a surface that resists rutting far better than bare soil or a finer, rounder gravel would.

Pricing Tiers for #57 Crushed Stone

Pricing splits into three tiers, all figured per ton. Orders of 3 tons or more run $202 a ton, plus a delivery charge, scheduled within 1 to 2 business days. Orders of 8 tons or more drop to $115 a ton, with a lighter delivery charge and same day or next business day service in most cases. Free delivery kicks in at the 15 ton threshold, where the per ton price drops to $90, and that tier is where most full-size driveway and drainage projects land once everything is added up. The delivered total is always tied to the destination ZIP code, since distance from the nearest yard is factored into every quote.

, pea gravel, river rock and topsoil all sell by the ton. Mulch is the single exception, priced instead by the cubic yard.

Working Out Your Tonnage

#57 crushed stone ships and prices only by the ton in Lee's Summit, so figure any estimate in tons from the start. A cubic yard of the stone weighs about 2,700 pounds, and 100 square feet at a 2 inch depth takes a little under three quarters of a ton to cover. Figure cubic yards first: length times width times depth in inches, all divided by 324, then convert to tons using the 2,700 pound per cubic yard weight of #57 stone. A driveway base 12 feet wide and 50 feet long at 4 inches deep comes out close to 11 tons. The #57 crushed stone calculator runs this conversion once measurements are entered.

How to Order #57 Crushed Stone in Lee's Summit

Ordering requires a ZIP code, a ton count and a preferred delivery date. When a project sits close to a tier boundary, rounding the order up is often the cheaper move overall, since the per ton rate falls faster than the added tonnage costs. The #57 Crushed Stone in Missouri hub covers pricing and current availability across every city served statewide. Most residential jobs in Lee's Summit land somewhere between 8 and 15 tons, whether the stone is going under a driveway or into drainage work on a newer lot.

About #57 Crushed Stone

#57 crushed stone is a gray, angular aggregate, crushed and screened down to a fairly narrow range of about three quarters of an inch to one inch. That jagged, broken shape is the key difference from naturally rounded stone like pea gravel or river rock: the faces catch against each other under compaction, locking the material into a firm base layer instead of letting it slide or spread once weight is applied. A cubic yard weighs roughly 2,700 pounds, well beyond the weight of mulch, topsoil or compost, and that weight is why the stone prices and ships by the ton rather than the cubic yard.

Those same interlocking gaps also let water pass through instead of collecting on the surface, which is why the stone is used so widely as a driveway base, inside French drains, along footing trenches and as backfill behind retaining walls. It performs just as well as an exposed surface for low-traffic parking pads, gravel equipment areas and utility yards, where drainage and a stable footing matter more than a smooth walking texture. Because #57 stone follows the same grading specification nationwide, the size range and how it performs stay consistent regardless of which yard fills a given order.

What #57 Crushed Stone costs in Lee's Summit

Local Lee's Summit yards quote #57 crushed stone by the ton; the delivered number includes fuel, the truck, and the haul. Send your ZIP and load size and we will send back a same-hour quote with the truck rate and the per-ton figure spelled out. A ton of this material spreads across about 80 sq ft when laid 3 inches deep, useful when you are sizing a patio base or a walkway run.

How crews use #57 Crushed Stone in Lee's Summit

In and around Lee's Summit, #57 crushed stone shows up most often on two project types. The most common deployment is driveway gravel, often in tight urban lots and infill builds in two to three inch lifts. Second on the list is drainage gravel, which we see in dense neighborhoods where curb access is short on partial-truck deliveries. At roughly 106,419 people, the Lee's Summit order mix leans toward 3 to 8 ton residential drops with the occasional 16 ton job for a contractor.

Delivery day in Lee's Summit

A typical Lee's Summit drop is dispatched from the closest yard with a two hour window and a heads-up call once the truck is loaded. Tandem trucks want a 12 ft lane in and out; tri-axles need 14 ft, and both want firm ground at the tipping spot so the load releases cleanly. Standard lead time on this lane is Mon-Sat, with same-day windows held open for orders that hit the desk before 11 AM and clear payment.

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