Tierra de Relleno y Entrega en Dallas-Fort Worth
Soil Depot’s North Texas team sources, brokers, and delivers fill dirt, select fill, topsoil, and sand to job sites across the DFW Metroplex, and hauls off surplus dirt when your site is generating spoils. From Collin County subdivisions to I-35 corridor commercial pads, James Parker’s team handles the material logistics so your grading crew can stay on schedule.
The DFW Soil Landscape
North Texas sits on blackland prairie with some of the highest-PI expansive clay in the state. That means most commercial and residential projects need tested, spec-compliant fill brought in from off-site sources. Finding clean material that meets your geotech requirements is half the battle. Coordinating trucks across a metro that stretches 100 miles wide is the other half.
Soil Depot maintains active relationships with export sites, borrow pits, and material yards across the Metroplex. When a developer in Frisco needs 15,000 CY of select fill and another in Mansfield is exporting 20,000 CY from a grading operation, we connect the two and handle the trucking in between. That is the core of what we do in Dallas-Fort Worth: source the right material, match it to the right site, and run the dispatch.
The DFW market moves fast. Land gets entitled, grading starts within weeks, and if your fill supplier can’t keep up with daily truck caps, your schedule slips. James’s team manages supplier coordination, daily dispatch, and real-time communication with your site superintendent so material shows up when it is supposed to and the load count holds up against the plan.
What Makes DFW Different
The Metroplex’s sprawl creates unique logistics challenges. A haul route that works at 6 AM hits gridlock by 7:30. Source sites that were exporting last month are now finished and closed. New subdivisions in Celina and Princeton are 45 minutes from the nearest material yard. We track active export sites daily and optimize haul routes to keep per-load costs down and delivery cadences reliable across Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton, and Rockwall counties.
Materials We Deliver in Dallas-Fort Worth
Every load is sourced to spec and delivered in commercial volumes for contractors, civil crews, and developers across DFW.
Select Fill
Clean, compactable structural fill for building pads, parking lots, and load-bearing grade. Sourced to your geotech PI and gradation spec.
Common Fill
General-purpose fill dirt for bulk volume, elevation changes, and rough grading where structural spec isn’t required.
Fill Dirt
Bulk fill dirt delivered across Dallas and Fort Worth for land leveling, backfill, and filling low or sunken areas on commercial sites.
Topsoil
Screened topsoil delivery for finish grade, landscape areas, and final cover once the structural work is done.
Sand & Base
Cushion sand, concrete sand, and aggregate base for bedding, sub-base, and utility work across the Metroplex.
Road Base & Crushed Concrete
Flex base and recycled crushed concrete for drives, lay-down yards, and stabilized access on active sites.
Produced at Our Fort Worth Pit
Most of what moves through Dallas-Fort Worth we source and broker. This list is different: these gradations come out of our own Fort Worth operation, which means the material, the loading and the trucking sit under one roof and a spec question gets answered by the people producing it.
Texas contractors order rock by the number, so order by the number. If your plans call a gradation we have not listed, tell us the spec and we will source it.
Dallas-Fort Worth Jobs on the Ground
These are Dallas-Fort Worth projects Soil Depot has run, not scenarios. Volume, speed and cost behave differently on each one, and the write-ups explain how the job was actually put together.
Volume Nobody Wants to Quote
Three hundred thousand yards is past the point where suppliers bid politely and start bidding to lose. Holding roughly 5,000 yards a day into one homebuilding pad is a dispatch problem long before it is a dirt problem.
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Owning the Whole Operation, Not Just the Rock
Hundreds of thousands of tons for David Weekley Homes, with 3 excavators, 2 dozers and 40 trucks under our management. Most suppliers hand you material and leave; on this one the equipment and the majority of the trucking are ours to run.
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The Empty Return Trip Is the Waste
Rock leaving a West Fort Worth site for Scott and Reid, common fill coming back on the same trucks. Four competing bids priced two separate jobs. Pairing them landed near a third of that, which is the whole argument for using one company on both sides of the gate.
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Short Notice That Did Not Cost More
Reliable Construction needed several thousand yards with no lead time, and short notice normally carries a premium. This one landed under half of open market inside 24 hours, because the material was already moving somewhere we could redirect it.
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A Landfill Is Rarely the Cheapest Door
Surplus fill leaving a Melissa site went to a project that was already paying to import the same material. One phone call between two jobs took close to half the export bill off, and most sites never make it.
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When the Spoil Is Not One Material
Dirt and rock leaving the Urban Garages development alongside XS Construction. Mixed spoil is the awkward case, because the rock and the dirt want different trucks and different destinations, and we supplied the excavator and the coordination for both.
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The Part That Happens Off the Property
A Southlake run where the risk was never the material. Established neighborhoods notice a tracked-out street within the hour, so the brief to the drivers mattered more than the load count.
Read the job →Dirt Export & Haul-Off in DFW
Generating more spoils than your site can balance? We export surplus dirt out of Dallas-Fort Worth job sites and route it to active fill destinations across the Metroplex. Instead of paying to dump clean material, we help you move it where it is needed, which keeps your haul costs down and your laydown areas clear.
For grading operations exporting common fill or select material, we coordinate the trucks, track the daily counts, and match your spoils to open orders in Collin, Denton, Tarrant, and Rockwall counties. One point of contact for both import and export keeps your earthwork moving in one direction: forward.
Export Dirt From Your SiteCommon DFW Applications
The projects we handle most across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex:
Areas We Serve Across DFW
We deliver fill dirt and soil, and run haul-off, throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The list is grouped by county because that is how a Metroplex job actually reads: the county and the city decide which specification your plans reference and whose inspector signs the embankment and base work off.
Dallas County
- Dallas
- Irving
- Garland
- Grand Prairie
- Mesquite
- Carrollton
- Richardson
- Rowlett
- Cedar Hill
- Coppell
Tarrant County
- Fort Worth
- Arlington
- Mansfield
- North Richland Hills
- Grapevine
- Southlake
- Keller
- Euless
- Bedford
- Hurst
Collin County
- Plano
- Frisco
- McKinney
- Allen
- Prosper
- Celina
- Wylie
- Melissa
- Anna
- Princeton
Denton County
- Denton
- Lewisville
- Flower Mound
- The Colony
- Little Elm
- Argyle
- Justin
- Sanger
Rockwall & Kaufman Counties
- Rockwall
- Royse City
- Heath
- Fate
- Forney
- Terrell
Ellis, Johnson & Parker Counties
- Waxahachie
- Midlothian
- Ennis
- Red Oak
- Burleson
- Cleburne
- Weatherford
Several Metroplex cities straddle a county line; the grouping follows the county that holds most of the city.
The Science of North Texas Soils
The DFW Metroplex sits on the Texas Blackland Prairie, a band of dark, calcareous clay weathered from Upper Cretaceous mudstone, chalk, and marl (the Eagle Ford, Austin Chalk, and Taylor formations). The dominant soils are smectitic Vertisols: clays built around swelling 2:1 minerals that expand when wet and shrink when dry. Houston Black, the official Texas state soil, is the signature example. This is why most North Texas commercial pads cannot be founded on native grade alone, and why imported select fill and subgrade stabilization are standard practice across the region.
| Soil series | USDA classification | Clay content | Engineering behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Black | Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Haplusterts (Vertisol) | 40-60% | High shrink-swell; dry cracks 0.5-4 in wide, open 90-150 days/yr |
| Heiden | Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Haplusterts (Vertisol) | 40-60% | High shrink-swell; weathered from calcareous mudstone |
| Ferris | Fine, smectitic, thermic Udorthentic Haplusterts | 40-60% | Sloping, eroded Blackland clay; high shrink-swell |
| Austin | Fine-silty, carbonatic, thermic Udorthentic Haplustolls | silty clay / chalk | Calcareous Mollisol on Austin Chalk; lower shrink-swell than the clays |
Classifications and behavior per USDA-NRCS Official Soil Series Descriptions. Confirm parcel-specific properties with the USDA Web Soil Survey.
Why expansive clay forces imported fill
Seasonal moisture swings drive North Texas clays through repeated shrink-swell cycles that heave and crack slabs, pavements, and foundations. The USGS maps the Blackland Prairie among the most expansive-clay-prone regions in the country. The 2021 International Building Code classifies a soil as expansive at a Plasticity Index of 15 or greater, and the standard remedies are the two we coordinate every day: cap the subgrade with imported low-plasticity select fill, and chemically stabilize the native clay (lime treatment is recommended for clays around a PI of 15 and above). North Texas added nearly 178,000 residents between 2023 and 2024, the third-largest numeric gain of any U.S. metro (U.S. Census Bureau), which keeps spec-compliant fill demand climbing across Collin, Denton, Dallas, Tarrant, and Rockwall counties.
How We Spec & Source Material
Commercial fill is only useful if it meets the spec. We source select fill, flexible base, and structural material to the standards your engineer and the jobsite require, and deliver it with the documentation your testing lab needs.
TxDOT Item 132 - Embankment
The benchmark for select/structural fill: Type A material caps Liquid Limit at 45 and Plasticity Index at 15, with field density tied to PI (98%+ of max dry density at PI ≤ 15). TxDOT 2024
TxDOT Item 247 - Flexible Base
Road base and stabilized access: Grade 1-2 caps Plasticity Index at 10 and Liquid Limit at 40, compacted to 100% of max dry density. TxDOT 2024
Compaction & Atterberg testing
Material is verified by Proctor (ASTM D698 / D1557), Atterberg limits / PI (D4318), and USCS classification (D2487).
Expansive-soil & stormwater compliance
Pads are designed around the IBC expansive-soil threshold (PI ≥ 15, 2021 IBC §1803.5.3). Sites disturbing 1+ acre need a SWPPP under the TCEQ Construction General Permit (TXR150000); we time delivery and staging to fit it.
One regional rule sits on top of the TxDOT items above, and it is the one that actually governs most Metroplex work. Municipal projects across North Central Texas are built to the NCTCOG Public Works Construction Standards, the regional specification maintained by the North Central Texas Council of Governments and now in its Amended Fifth Edition. If your job is for a city in Dallas, Tarrant, Collin or Denton County, the embankment, backfill and base requirements on your plans are far more likely to reference that book than a TxDOT item directly, and we spec and document material against it the same way.
Dallas-Fort Worth Soil Delivery FAQ
References & Authorities
The technical claims on this page are grounded in primary sources:
- NCTCOG - Public Works Construction Standards, North Central Texas (Amended Fifth Edition)
- USDA-NRCS - Houston Black series (Texas state soil)
- USDA-NRCS - Heiden series
- USDA Web Soil Survey (parcel-level properties)
- USGS - Swelling Clays Map of the Conterminous U.S.
- TxDOT - Item 132 Embankment (2024)
- TxDOT - Item 247 Flexible Base (2024)
- ICC - 2021 IBC, expansive soils (§1803.5.3)
- TCEQ - Construction General Permit (TXR150000)
- U.S. Census Bureau - Metro Area Population Trends
Need dirt in DFW?
Tell us the material type, volume, and job site location. James will have a quote back to you the same day.
Servimos Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Denton y the surrounding Metroplex.
Condiciones del Suelo en Dallas-Fort Worth y Lo Que Significan para el Relleno
La mayor parte del Metroplex se asienta sobre la Blackland Prairie (la pradera de tierra negra), y los suelos nativos son arcillas de alta plasticidad: las series Houston Black y Heiden son Vertisoles texanos clásicos, con un índice de plasticidad que rutinariamente queda muy por encima del PI de 15 que exige una especificación de relleno selecto estructural. Al oeste y al noroeste de la franja de arcilla la sección cambia a Austin Chalk y a la lutita Eagle Ford, y los suelos someros sobre roca como las series Tarrant y Eckrant aparecen alrededor de Fort Worth y en los condados del oeste.
La consecuencia práctica en una obra de plataforma del Metroplex es que la tierra que ya está en tu sitio casi nunca puede convertirse en tu relleno estructural. La arcilla Blackland se expande y se contrae con la humedad, y por eso el IBC marca los suelos de alta plasticidad para diseño especial y por eso los reportes geotécnicos en los condados de Dallas, Collin y Tarrant piden con tanta frecuencia relleno selecto importado bajo la plataforma de construcción, con la arcilla nativa relegada a la subida de nivel general. Eso divide un solo proyecto en dos flujos de material a la vez: relleno selecto de especificación entrando y arcilla sobrante saliendo.
Trabajamos los dos lados de esa división. Entregamos relleno selecto grado TxDOT Item 132 a la plataforma y acarreamos la arcilla excavada hacia un sitio de importación que la quiere para subida de nivel, en lugar de a un relleno sanitario.
Tierra de Relleno y Relleno Selecto en Venta en Dallas-Fort Worth
La mayoría de las obras de plataforma del Metroplex no pueden reutilizar la tierra que excavan: la arcilla Blackland rebasa por mucho la línea de PI 15 que permite una especificación estructural, así que el relleno selecto bajo la losa casi siempre es importado. Esa importación es nuestro negocio central en el DFW. Vendemos y entregamos relleno selecto grado TxDOT Item 132 para plataformas de construcción, más tierra de relleno a granel y relleno común para subidas de nivel, por camionada en los condados de Dallas, Tarrant, Collin y Denton, cotizado el mismo día con el tipo, las yardas y la dirección del sitio. Nuestro patio principal está en Plano, en medio del corredor que está colando más plataformas nuevas.
Fill dirt in Dallas-Fort Worth, select fill, and common fill, all delivered by the truckload.
Entrega de Tierra de Relleno Cerca de Mí en Dallas-Fort Worth
¿Buscas tierra de relleno cerca de ti en Dallas-Fort Worth? No vendemos desde un patio al que tengas que manejar. Entregamos en la obra, así que el material llega a tu dirección en cualquier punto de Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Denton and the surrounding Metroplex, y la carga se despacha desde la fuente que quede más cerca de tu sitio esa semana.
Eso también significa que el proveedor más cercano en el mapa no es automáticamente el precio entregado más barato, porque la distancia de acarreo es solo un factor y el grado del material es el otro. Manda la dirección con el tipo y las yardas y te cotizamos el número real entregado para tu ubicación el mismo día.
Acarreo y Retiro de Tierra en Dallas-Fort Worth
Una obra de corte y relleno en el DFW son en realidad dos flujos de material: relleno de especificación entrando y arcilla sobrante saliendo. Manejamos ambos en un solo despacho, entregando relleno selecto a la plataforma y acarreando la arcilla Blackland excavada fuera del mismo sitio, lo que mantiene los camiones cargados en ambas direcciones y tu área de acopio despejada. Despachamos acarreo de tierra por todo el Metroplex, desde el lado oeste rocoso de Fort Worth hasta la franja de arcilla al este de Dallas.
Need dirt removal? Start a same-day haul-off quote for Dallas-Fort Worth. Not sure which truck fits your load? See our dump truck sizes and load capacities.
Exportación de Tierra en Dallas-Fort Worth
La arcilla que no pasa una especificación de plataforma en el DFW sigue siendo material buscado: las subidas de nivel y las bermas por el norte de Texas reciben con gusto arcilla de alto índice de plasticidad. Al exportar desde un sitio del Metroplex, manejamos los camiones, el calendario y el destino, emparejando tu sobrante con un sitio de importación activo en lugar de un relleno sanitario, que suele ser la salida más barata del sitio. Dinos las yardas y el material y cotizamos la exportación el mismo día.
Moving dirt out is half of what we do. See dirt export and haul-off for how the match works.
Dónde Tirar Tierra y Se Busca Relleno Limpio en Dallas-Fort Worth
El relleno limpio se busca en todo el Metroplex de forma casi continua: el corredor de rápido crecimiento por Plano, Frisco, McKinney y Celina sube el nivel de terreno nuevo cada mes. Si tu sitio del DFW está exportando, colocamos tu relleno limpio con un sitio de importación que lo quiere y coordinamos los camiones de volteo, lo que muchas veces convierte una partida de disposición en un retiro de bajo costo o sin costo.
Entrega de Tierra Vegetal, Arena y Base Flexible en Dallas-Fort Worth
Bajo los accesos, estacionamientos y patios de acopio del DFW la base indicada suele ser la base flexible TxDOT Item 247, y la entregamos por camionada junto con concreto triturado reciclado, arena de cama y arena para concreto, y tierra vegetal cribada para el nivel de acabado sobre la arcilla. Ve base flexible y base para caminos, arena y base de agregado, y tierra vegetal a granel.
Cuánto Cuesta la Tierra de Relleno y el Acarreo en Dallas-Fort Worth
Cotizamos el material por yarda cúbica y por camionada, y el retiro por viaje. En el Metroplex el factor decisivo es la distancia de acarreo: las mismas yardas se cotizan distinto en Frisco que en el sur de Fort Worth, y el costo de exportar arcilla depende de qué sitio de importación está recibiendo material esa semana. Así que la respuesta honesta a "cuánto cuesta" es una cotización rápida y específica, no un precio de etiqueta. Manda el tipo, las yardas y la dirección y te la regresamos el mismo día.