Flagpole installation inHattiesburg, MS

Flagpoles in Hattiesburg

The Hub City: two universities, the hospitals and retail that the whole Pine Belt drives to, and Camp Shelby immediately south of town. We cover Hattiesburg and the Forrest County area, including downtown and the Historic Neighborhood District, the University of Southern Mississippi, William Carey University, Forrest General Hospital, Camp Shelby, the Longleaf Trace, Hardy Street and the US 98 corridor, Midtown, Oak Grove and Petal across the river.

Wind here. Hattiesburg sits in an inland Pine Belt area, which works out to roughly 130 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. Hattiesburg is about seventy miles from the beach and still sizes to around 130 mph, and that is the single thing people here expect to be wrong. It is not a coastal number and it is not the flat 115 the rest of the state works to, and it puts a heavier wall on the table for a building that would take a standard shaft in Jackson. The ground gives nothing back either: Coastal Plain sand and silt with pockets of shrink-swell clay running through it, so the footing is sized on what the hole actually turns up rather than on a county average. Exterior work inside the locally designated districts goes to the city's Historic Conservation Commission for a Certificate of Appropriateness, which is a calendar item rather than a difficulty. Camp Shelby sits immediately south of town, and work inside the gate runs through military channels rather than the city.

Most of the people who call us from Hattiesburg are university and college buildings, hospitals and medical offices, National Guard and defence facilities, schools, churches, veterans posts, hotels and commercial frontage out on 98.