Flagpole installation inDavenport, IA

Flagpoles in Davenport

The largest of the Quad Cities, a manufacturing and river-freight town, and the biggest city on the Mississippi with no permanent floodwall or levee. We cover Davenport and the Scott County area, including downtown and the riverfront at LeClaire Park, the Village of East Davenport, Modern Woodmen Park, the Figge Art Museum and the Putnam, St. Ambrose University, Palmer College of Chiropractic and the manufacturing and distribution frontage along Interstate 80 and Highway 61.

Wind here. Davenport sits in a Mississippi riverfront 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. Davenport kept its riverfront as parkland instead of walling it off, and that decision still shapes every job near the water. When the river comes up, the parkland goes under: in 2019 it sat above flood stage for ninety-six days, and the temporary barrier along the downtown front gave way at the end of April. None of that stops a pole going in near the water, but it moves the decisions to where the base sits, how high the cleat and the access door are set, and whether a street back gives you nearly the same sightline on ground that stays dry. Away from the river the problem reverses, because the distribution frontage along Interstate 80 and Highway 61 stands open with fields behind it and gets sized on that rather than on the flat 110. And half of this metro is in Illinois, so we work from the street address rather than from the Quad Cities as a place.

Most of the people who call us from Davenport are manufacturing and distribution buildings, downtown and riverfront commercial, hospitals and medical offices, hotels, university and college campuses, schools, churches, veterans posts and county facilities.