Flagpole installation inCedar Rapids, IA

Flagpoles in Cedar Rapids

The second city of Iowa: corn milling and grain processing on a large scale, an avionics and engineering base, two colleges, and a city hall and county courthouse standing on an island in the river. We cover Cedar Rapids and the Linn County area, including downtown and May's Island, the New Bohemia and Czech Village districts, Kingston Village, Coe College and Mount Mercy University, Kirkwood Community College, the processing and avionics plants along the Cedar and the Highway 100 and Interstate 380 frontage.

Wind here. Cedar Rapids sits in an exposed eastern Iowa urban 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. The derecho of 10 August 2020 is the storm people here ask about, and the accurate version of it is the useful one. The National Weather Service put the strongest gusts at 130 to 140 mph across parts of Benton and Linn counties, downtown Cedar Rapids and Marion among them, and roughly 65 percent of the city's tree canopy came down with them. That changed the sizing question more than it changed the map: a lot that was sheltered in 2019 is open ground now, so the exposure gets read off the lot as it stands today and not off an older aerial photograph. The other thing that decides a Cedar Rapids spot is the flood protection the city has been building along both banks of the Cedar since 2008. A pole cannot stand in the line of a levee or a floodwall, or on the ground a removable wall has to be set on.

Most of the people who call us from Cedar Rapids are grain processing and manufacturing plants, avionics and engineering offices, city and county buildings, colleges and public schools, hospitals, churches, veterans posts and downtown commercial frontage.