Flagpole installation inDothan, AL

Flagpoles in Dothan

The commercial centre of the Wiregrass: a regional hospital, the peanut and farm trade, and retail that pulls from three states. We cover Dothan and the Houston County area, including downtown and the mural blocks, Southeast Health, the Ross Clark Circle and Wiregrass Commons corridor, Wallace Community College, the National Peanut Festival grounds, Dothan Regional Airport and the farm country out toward Headland and Ashford.

Wind here. Dothan sits in an inland, Wiregrass coastal plain area, which works out to roughly 120 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. Dothan sizes to about 120 mph, which catches people out, because the coast is a long drive south of here. It is not far enough. Hurricane Michael came up through the Panhandle in October 2018 and did its worst Alabama damage in the Wiregrass, most of it to the cotton and peanuts standing in the field, so a Gulf landfall is a live design case in Houston County. The ground is the straightforward part: deep, well drained Coastal Plain sand and sandy loam over marine sediment, common enough around here that the soil survey has a series named Dothan. Water runs straight through it and it grips very little, so on this ground the width of the footing does the work rather than the depth. Out at the buying points and along the farm roads a pole stands in open field with a clear run at it from every direction, and we size those for the field rather than for the town.

Most of the people who call us from Dothan are farms, peanut buying points and gins, the hospital and its medical offices, car dealerships and Ross Clark Circle retail frontage, churches, schools, veterans posts and county buildings.