Flagpole installation inFrankfort, KY

Flagpoles in Frankfort

A small city that is mostly a government town: the Capitol, the agencies and the offices that follow them, with distilleries and a university alongside. We cover Frankfort and the Franklin County area, including the Kentucky State Capitol and the state office campus, the Old State Capitol and downtown, the Governor's Mansion, Kentucky State University, Buffalo Trace Distillery, Liberty Hall and the South Frankfort streets.

Wind here. Frankfort sits in an inland and valley-sheltered 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. Frankfort sits down in the river valley and that decides most of the work. The Kentucky River makes an S through the middle of town, downtown and South Frankfort are on the flat inside the bends, and the newer development is up on the valley walls in East and West Frankfort — sheltered ground and exposed ground about a mile apart. Flooding is why the North Frankfort levee went in during 1969 and the South Frankfort floodwall in the 1990s, so a hole anywhere near either easement is worth clearing before it is priced. Near the river the limestone carries sinkholes, caves and streams that run out of sight underground, so the depth of the footing is settled at the address and not in the office. State property runs on its own track: the Capitol and the office buildings around it are not a city permit, and that is a process to start early rather than late.

Most of the people who call us from Frankfort are state agency buildings, county and city facilities, university buildings, distilleries, schools, churches, veterans posts, and the associations and law offices that sit near the Capitol.