Flagpole installation inColumbia, MO

Flagpoles in Columbia

A three-college city in the middle of the state, with a university health system, an insurance and finance base and a compact downtown wedged between the campuses. We cover Columbia and the Boone County area, including the University of Missouri and the Francis Quadrangle, Jesse Hall and the Columns, Stephens College and Columbia College, the District downtown with the North Village Arts District and Flat Branch, the MU Health and Boone Hospital campuses and Rock Bridge.

Wind here. Columbia sits in an inland, wooded college-town 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. Columbia does not let a flagpole off the height limit on the lot. Its unified development code lists flagpoles with parapet walls, chimneys and spires as structures allowed six feet above the maximum height of the zoning district, and no further, so in a district with a low limit the height is settled before the pole is ordered rather than after. The other constraint here is the canopy. The older streets and the Francis Quadrangle carry heavy tree cover, so we walk the arc the flag will actually sweep before a spot is agreed; branches finish more flags in this town than weather does. South of the city you are into cave country, with Rock Bridge and the Devil's Icebox as the visible end of it, and the largest sinkhole known in Missouri, about 700 acres of it, lies in western Boone County. On that side of town the hole gets looked at rather than assumed.

Most of the people who call us from Columbia are university and college buildings, hospital and clinic campuses, insurance and finance offices, public schools, churches, sorority and fraternity houses and downtown businesses.