Excavation and land clearing across Bladen County, NC.

The Cape Fear River runs north to south through the middle of Bladen County, and most of the property we work on here is either close enough to feel the river’s influence on the soil or sits on the sandier upland on either side of the valley. Elizabethtown is on a high bluff above the river, Bladenboro is well west of it, and Clarkton sits between the two on the southern part of the county. White Lake — a resort community on a Carolina bay lake — is the fourth place we get called into regularly. The soil mix matters because the same county can have a sandy lot that drains too fast on one job and a wet bottomland lot that does not drain at all on the next.

White Lake is a Carolina bay lake similar in formation to Lake Waccamaw in Columbus County, and the surrounding community has been a working summer resort since the early twentieth century. Pond work, lakefront grading, and driveway maintenance are common around White Lake. On the other end of the county, Tar Heel is home to one of the largest pork processing facilities in the country, and the Smithfield operation’s footprint pulls a steady stream of supporting agricultural and contractor work into Bladen.

Bladen County has more active farmland than any of the other counties in our regular service area, and farmland drainage is its own discipline. Old field ditches that have silted in, headers that need rebuilding, culverts that are too small for today’s rainfall patterns — that kind of work shows up steadily on Bladen jobs. Ditching and drainage is one of the services in our lineup and it is among the most-requested services we get called for in this county specifically.

Bladen is the county we have the most repeat customers in. A lot of the agricultural property owners we have worked for in Elizabethtown and Bladenboro have called us back over multiple seasons — clear a corner of a field one year, regrade a farm road the next, dig a new pond the year after that. That repeat-customer pattern is the part of Bladen County work we value most. If you are a Bladen County property owner and you are reading this for the first time, you are probably one phone call away from joining a list of people we have been doing work for steadily since the early 2000s.