Flagpole installation inCasper, WY

Flagpoles in Casper

The second city of Wyoming and the centre of its oil and gas business, laid out along the North Platte with an 8,130 ft mountain standing directly behind it. We cover Casper and the Natrona County area, including downtown and David Street Station, the Old Yellowstone District, Casper College, the East Second Street medical corridor, the Ford Wyoming Center, the North Platte River frontage, the Casper Mountain road and the yards out through Evansville and Mills.

Wind here. Casper sits in an open North Platte basin 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. Casper publishes its own design criteria rather than making you go looking for them, and two lines of it decide a flagpole. The wind speed is 115 mph as a three-second gust. The exposure is fixed at C, which is the city telling you to design as though nothing on the site shelters the pole. Casper Mountain rises about 3,000 ft off the south edge of town, and a site on the bench below it or out on the open ground toward Bar Nunn gets no shelter credit at all. The frost line is the other line that costs money, deep enough here that we confirm it for the address before quoting a foundation. Winters seize plated fittings, so we specify stainless, and where a pole stands somewhere nobody supervises an internal halyard pays for itself, if only because nobody has to handle a frozen rope to raise the flag.

Most of the people who call us from Casper are energy and engineering offices, refining and equipment yards, hospitals and clinics, college and school buildings, car dealerships, banks, churches, veterans posts and municipal facilities.