Flagpole installation inBowling Green, KY

Flagpoles in Bowling Green

A manufacturing and university town on the Barren River, with a car plant, a large state campus and an industrial belt still filling in around the interstate. We cover Bowling Green and the Warren County area, including Western Kentucky University, Fountain Square and downtown, the Corvette plant and the National Corvette Museum, Lost River Cave, the Barren River, and the Scottsville Road, Nashville Road and I-65 corridors.

Wind here. Bowling Green sits in an inland, open and heavily karst-underlain 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. Bowling Green is the reason we ask about the ground before the pole anywhere in Kentucky. The town sits on the sinkhole plain, and on 12 February 2014 a sinkhole opened under the floor of the National Corvette Museum, took eight cars down with it, and the floor had to go back on micropiles — steel rods driven deep enough to reach something solid. That is the geology here rather than a freak event. So a footing in Warren County is priced after somebody has looked at the ground, not before: a closed depression anywhere near the spot, or an auger that suddenly runs free, sends the hole for investigation instead of concrete. Zoning and development review for the city and the county both go through the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County, which at least makes it one office and not two.

Most of the people who call us from Bowling Green are university and school buildings, manufacturing plants and distribution operations, hospitals and medical offices, city and county facilities, banks, churches, hotels and car dealerships.