Fill Dirt Delivery in San Antonio
San Antonio is expanding fast. The 1604 corridor is pushing outward, military-adjacent development near JBSA keeps the pipeline full, and south and west side growth zones are demanding structural fill at volumes that didn’t exist five years ago. Soil Depot’s Central Texas team keeps material flowing to, and surplus dirt moving off, the sites building this city’s next chapter.
The San Antonio Soil Landscape
San Antonio shares Central Texas geology with Austin but sits on flatter terrain. You still hit limestone and caliche, but the grading plans are less dramatic. The trade-off is scale. The 1604 loop is a construction corridor where commercial pads, distribution centers, and master-planned communities are going vertical at the same time. That means high demand for structural fill concentrated in specific zones.
Military construction near Joint Base San Antonio adds a layer of specification requirements that commercial work doesn’t always carry. PI limits are stricter, compaction testing is more frequent, and material documentation needs to be airtight. We source material that meets those specs and deliver it with the paper trail your project requires.
The south and west side expansion zones are where most of the new residential volume is heading. These areas are farther from established borrow pits, which means haul costs climb if sourcing isn’t planned carefully. We maintain supplier relationships along the I-35 and I-10 corridors to keep haul distances manageable.
Growth Zone Logistics
San Antonio’s construction is concentrated in predictable corridors: 1604 North for commercial, south and west side for residential, and JBSA-adjacent for government and military. Each corridor has different supplier access and haul dynamics. We plan sourcing by zone so your project doesn’t get stuck waiting on trucks coming from across the city.
Materials We Deliver in San Antonio
Every load is sourced to spec and delivered in commercial volumes for contractors, civil crews, and developers across South Central Texas.
Select Fill
Clean, compactable structural fill sourced to spec, including the stricter PI limits and documentation JBSA-adjacent and government work demand.
Common Fill
General-purpose fill dirt for bulk volume, elevation changes, and rough grading across the 1604 corridor and growth zones.
Fill Dirt
Bulk fill dirt delivered across the San Antonio metro for land leveling, backfill, and raising grade on expansion-zone sites.
Topsoil
Screened topsoil delivery for finish grade, landscape areas, and erosion control on master-planned communities.
Sand & Base
Cushion sand, concrete sand, and aggregate base for bedding, sub-base, and utility work across Bexar and surrounding counties.
Road Base & Crushed Concrete
Flex base and recycled crushed concrete for drives, distribution-yard laydown, and stabilized site access.
Dirt Export & Haul-Off in San Antonio
The 1604 corridor and the south and west side growth zones generate steady spoils alongside steady fill demand. We export surplus dirt out of San Antonio job sites and route it to active fill destinations across the metro, so clean material moves where it is needed instead of into a dump fee.
For grading and excavation along the 1604, I-35, and I-10 corridors, we coordinate trucks, track daily counts, and match your spoils to open orders by growth zone. One point of contact for both import and export keeps haul distances down and your earthwork on schedule.
Export Dirt From Your SiteCommon San Antonio Applications
The projects we handle most across the San Antonio metro:
Areas We Serve Across South Central Texas
We deliver fill dirt and soil, and run haul-off, throughout the San Antonio metro, including:
- San Antonio
- New Braunfels
- Schertz
- Cibolo
- Boerne
- Helotes
- Converse
- Universal City
- Seguin
- Selma
- Live Oak
- Bulverde
- Leon Valley
- Alamo Heights
- Fair Oaks Ranch
- Castroville
- Floresville
- Pleasanton
The Science of South Central Texas Soils
San Antonio is split by the Balcones Fault Zone. Northern Bexar County sits on the Edwards Plateau, shallow soils over the karstic Edwards Limestone that forms the recharge zone of the Edwards Aquifer. South and east along I-35 lies the Blackland Prairie with its deep, expansive clays. As in Austin, both regimes, rock to the north and high-plasticity clay to the south, push projects toward imported, spec-compliant fill.
| Soil series | USDA classification | Depth to bedrock / clay | Engineering behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Black | Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Haplusterts (Vertisol) | clay 40-60% | Deep expansive Blackland clay; high shrink-swell |
| Tarrant | Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, thermic Lithic Calciustolls | bedrock 6-20 in | Shallow over limestone; rock excavation common |
| Eckrant | Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, thermic Lithic Haplustolls | bedrock 4-20 in | Stony, shallow over Edwards limestone |
| Branyon | Fine, smectitic, thermic Udic Haplusterts (Vertisol) | clay 40-60% | Deep Blackland clay; cracks 1-3 in wide to 20 in+, 90-150 days/yr |
Classifications per USDA-NRCS Official Soil Series Descriptions. Confirm parcel-specific properties with the USDA Web Soil Survey.
Edwards Aquifer and federal-grade specs
Over the Edwards recharge and contributing zones across much of northern Bexar County, earthwork requires a TCEQ-approved water-quality plan before any soil is disturbed (30 TAC 213). Military and federal construction near Joint Base San Antonio follows the Unified Facilities Guide Specifications (UFGS Division 31), with project-specified Plasticity Index and compaction limits verified by Proctor and Atterberg testing and backed by certified documentation. The 2021 International Building Code flags soil as expansive at a Plasticity Index of 15 or greater. Growth is concentrated on the Loop 1604 corridor, where TxDOT’s $1.4 billion, 23-mile expansion from four to ten lanes is underway, and the San Antonio metro is among the fastest-growing large metros in the country (U.S. Census Bureau).
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. 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 & federal specs
Material is verified by Proctor (ASTM D698 / D1557), Atterberg/PI (D4318), and USCS (D2487); federal/JBSA work follows UFGS Division 31.
Edwards Aquifer & stormwater compliance
Over the Edwards recharge/contributing zone, earthwork needs a TCEQ-approved water-quality plan before soil disturbance (30 TAC 213). Sites disturbing 1+ acre also need a SWPPP under the TCEQ CGP (TXR150000).
San Antonio Soil Delivery FAQ
References & Authorities
The technical claims on this page are grounded in primary sources:
- USDA-NRCS - Houston Black series
- USDA-NRCS - Tarrant series
- USDA-NRCS - Eckrant series
- USDA-NRCS - Branyon series
- USDA Web Soil Survey
- TWDB - Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer
- TCEQ - Edwards Aquifer Protection Program
- TxDOT - Item 132 Embankment (2024)
- TxDOT - Item 247 Flexible Base (2024)
- TxDOT - Loop 1604 North Expansion
- ICC - 2021 IBC, expansive soils (§1803.5.3)
- TCEQ - Construction General Permit (TXR150000)
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Serving San Antonio, New Braunfels, Schertz, Boerne, Seguin and the 1604 corridor.
San Antonio Soil Conditions and What They Mean for Fill
San Antonio straddles the Balcones Fault Zone, and the ground changes character sharply as you move across the city. North and northwest, out along the 1604 corridor and toward Boerne, the section is Edwards Limestone with shallow soils over rock, the Tarrant and Brackett series, caliche and frequent rock excavation. South and east of the fault the ground softens into Blackland Prairie clays, including the Houston Black and Branyon series, with the high plasticity and shrink swell behavior that comes with them.
The northern half of that picture also sits over the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, which is regulated by the TCEQ Edwards Aquifer Protection Program. On recharge zone sites the handling of excavated material, staging and where spoil can legally go are constrained in ways that do not apply on a job a few miles south, and that constraint shows up directly in haul distance and cost.
The result is a metro where a rock heavy site on 1604 and a clay site toward Seguin or Schertz need completely different material plans. We quote against the specific site rather than a single San Antonio number, and we can match export material from the rock and clay sides to import jobs that want it.
Fill Dirt & Select Fill for Sale in San Antonio
San Antonio splits along the Balcones Fault: out on the 1604 corridor and toward Boerne the ground is Edwards limestone and caliche where usable fill is scarce and imported, while south and east the Blackland clays need imported select fill under anything structural. We sell and deliver select fill, bulk fill dirt and common fill by the truckload across San Antonio, New Braunfels, Schertz and Seguin, matched to your geotech spec and quoted same-day.
Fill dirt in San Antonio, select fill, and common fill, all delivered by the truckload.
Fill Dirt Delivery Near Me in San Antonio
Searching for fill dirt near you in San Antonio? We do not sell from a yard you have to drive to. We deliver to the job site, so the material comes to your address anywhere across San Antonio, New Braunfels, Schertz, Boerne, Seguin and the 1604 corridor, and the load is routed from whichever source sits nearest your site that week.
That also means the closest supplier on a map is not automatically the cheapest delivered price, because haul distance is only one input and material grade is the other. Send the address with the type and yards and we quote the real delivered number for your location the same day.
Dirt Hauling & Haul-Off in San Antonio
A northside San Antonio site cuts rock; a southside site cuts clay; neither can just stay put. We dispatch dump trucks across the metro to haul rock, caliche and clay spoil off site, and on pad jobs we deliver the spec fill and haul the surplus in the same dispatch, which keeps the trucking tight on jobs where 1604 distances add up.
Need dirt removal? Start a same-day haul-off quote for San Antonio. Not sure which truck fits your load? See our dump truck sizes and load capacities.
Dirt Export in San Antonio
Dirt export is half the San Antonio conversation. We manage it end to end, the trucks, the schedule and the destination, matching rock and caliche spoil from the north side and clay from the south side to import jobs that want each. On recharge-zone sites north of the city the legal handling of spoil is part of the plan, not an afterthought. Yards, material and address gets a same-day export quote.
Moving dirt out is half of what we do. See dirt export and haul-off for how the match works.
Dirt Dumpsite in San Antonio: Where to Dump Dirt & Clean Fill Wanted
Looking for a dirt dumpsite in San Antonio usually means paying to get rid of material. We work it the other way: clean fill from your site goes to an active import job, grade raises toward Seguin and Schertz take clay and growth along 1604 takes structural material, and we coordinate the dump trucks. That usually beats dump fees, and often turns the haul-off close to free.
Bulk Topsoil, Sand & Flex Base Delivery in San Antonio
Rock country puts base material at the center of San Antonio site work: flex base and recycled crushed concrete for drives and laydown yards, cushion sand under slabs, and screened topsoil where finish grade needs soil over caliche. See flex base and road base, sand and aggregate base, and bulk topsoil.
What Fill Dirt & Dirt Hauling Cost in San Antonio
We price material by the cubic yard and by the truckload, and haul-off per load. San Antonio totals swing on geography: a rock site on 1604 and a clay site toward Seguin need different material plans, and haul distance across the loop drives the delivered number. The honest answer to "how much" is a specific quote, so send the type, yards and address and we turn it around the same day.
Minimum order: 4,000 cubic yards.