Flagpole installation inBloomington, IN

Flagpoles in Bloomington

A university town first, with a hospital, medical-device manufacturing and the Indiana limestone belt running underneath it. We cover Bloomington and the Monroe County area, including Indiana University and the Sample Gates, the Courthouse Square, Kirkwood Avenue, the Showers building that holds city hall, the Prospect Hill and Vinegar Hill districts, and the limestone quarries out toward Bedford.

Wind here. Bloomington sits in an inland, hilly and karstic area, which works out to roughly 115 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. Bloomington is built on limestone, and limestone dissolves, so the hole is the interesting part of the job here. Sinking streams, springs, swallow holes and caves are ordinary Monroe County features, and the city's development ordinance treats them as such: a mapped karst feature gets a conservancy easement drawn around it and structures stay out of that easement, which is enough on its own to move a flagpole across a lawn. A soft spot that swallows the auger is a reason to move the pole, not a reason to add concrete. Prospect Hill, Vinegar Hill and the conservation districts around them go through the historic preservation commission before exterior work starts. None of that shows on a wind map, which is why we want a photograph and a rough position on the lawn before we price anything.

Most of the people who call us from Bloomington are university and school buildings, the hospital and medical offices, county and city facilities, fraternity and sorority houses and student housing, churches, and the businesses around the square.