Flagpole installation inBismarck, ND

Flagpoles in Bismarck

The state capital, standing above the Missouri, with government, health care and a trade area that reaches across the western half of North Dakota. We cover Bismarck and the Burleigh County area, including the Capitol grounds and the Art Deco tower, the North Dakota Heritage Center, downtown Bismarck, the State Street corridor, Bismarck State College, United Tribes Technical College, the Missouri riverfront and Mandan across the water.

Wind here. Bismarck sits in a windswept and river-cut area, which works out to roughly 110 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. Anything raised on the Capitol grounds goes to the Capitol Grounds Planning Commission before it goes to a building department. The statute is blunt about it: nothing may be constructed or placed there without the commission's approval, and the commission rules on basic style and exterior construction as well as the site. Start that while the drawings are still open. Off the grounds it is the winter rather than the wind that wants planning for. Plated fittings do not survive a Bismarck cold snap and a winch has to be turnable by someone wearing gloves, so we specify stainless and a handle you can actually grip. The city stands on the east bank and the ground steps down to the Missouri, so a site on the river side is a different exposure from one on State Street a mile inland, and west of Mandan there is open country with nothing on it at all.

Most of the people who call us from Bismarck are state agency buildings, city and county facilities, hospitals and medical offices, schools and college buildings, banks, car dealerships, churches and veterans posts.