Flagpole installation inBaton Rouge, LA

Flagpoles in Baton Rouge

State government, two universities and a petrochemical river corridor, all run through one city-parish government. We cover Baton Rouge and the East Baton Rouge Parish area, including the State Capitol and Capitol Park, downtown and Third Street, the Old State Capitol, Spanish Town and Beauregard Town, LSU, Southern University, Mid City, the Perkins Road corridor and the Mississippi River port.

Wind here. Baton Rouge sits in an inland river-terrace area, which works out to roughly 125 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Baton Rouge is where the wind figure stops being the hard part of the job. At about 125 mph a standard shaft wall is right on most sites. The ground is the interesting half. The city stands up on the Pleistocene prairie terrace, firmer than anything downriver, but the Baton Rouge fault runs across the parish, its trace is mapped, and buildings sitting over it have moved, so we want the line located before the hole is dug. West of the river you drop off the terrace onto Mississippi alluvium, which is river silt rather than terrace clay and a different footing under the same pole. Exterior work in Spanish Town and the other local historic districts goes to the Historic Preservation Commission for a certificate of appropriateness, so allow for the meeting cycle.

Most of the people who call us from Baton Rouge are state agency and city-parish buildings, university and school campuses, hospitals and medical offices, refinery and plant sites, churches, veterans posts and downtown offices.