Flagpole installation inHelena, MT

Flagpoles in Helena

The state capital and a government town before anything else, tucked into a mountain-ringed valley at the head of an old gold gulch. We cover Helena and the Lewis and Clark County area, including the Capitol and the state office buildings around it, Last Chance Gulch and the downtown walking mall, the Cathedral of Saint Helena, the Civic Center, Carroll College, Mount Helena City Park, Fort Harrison and East Helena.

Wind here. Helena sits in an inland, mountain-ringed area, which works out to roughly 105 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. The Capitol changes the shape of a Helena job. A memorial, monument or plaque meant to stand long term on the Capitol Complex goes to the Capitol Complex Advisory Council, which the legislature created in 1997 for exactly that and which advises the legislature rather than issuing a permit. So a memorial pole on state ground here is a legislative question before it is a construction one, and the timetable belongs to the session rather than to a permit counter. Off the complex the city's own numbers are ordinary, 106 mph and 42 inches to the bottom of the footing, and what varies is the ground. Downtown is built in and over Last Chance Gulch, a placer gold camp whose water once ran on the surface, so what the auger finds under the walking mall is not what it finds up the hill. And East Helena carries a silver-lead smelter site that has been in federal cleanup since 1984, where disturbed soil has rules attached to where it ends up.

Most of the people who call us from Helena are state agencies and the buildings they sit in, county and city facilities, the college and the school district, churches, veterans organisations, the Guard and VA campuses out at Fort Harrison, and downtown commercial frontage.