Flagpole installation inIndependence, MO

Flagpoles in Independence

An older city on the eastern edge of Kansas City, built around a courthouse square, with its own electric utility, a hospital and a large school district behind it. We cover Independence and the Jackson County area, including the Independence Square and the Jackson County Courthouse, the Truman Home and the Truman Presidential Library and Museum, the Community of Christ Temple and Auditorium, the National Frontier Trails Museum, the Vaile Mansion, the Bingham-Waggoner Estate and the Englewood district.

Wind here. Independence sits in an inland, eastern Jackson County 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. Independence lays a historic overlay over its designated districts, and the Truman neighbourhood just west of the Square is inside one; the Park Service treats that same neighbourhood as part of a National Historic Landmark district. A certificate of appropriateness has to be in hand before exterior work starts on a designated landmark or anywhere in a historic district. Plain work is signed off by the historic preservation manager under the commission's own approval matrix; anything beyond that goes to the Heritage Commission itself, so it is worth asking which route you are on before you fix a date. The city also runs its own electric utility, Independence Power and Light, which means the overhead lines above your spot belong to the city and clearance is settled with them before anyone digs. And the Square closes for Santa-Cali-Gon Days over Labor Day weekend every year, which is not the week to book work on it.

Most of the people who call us from Independence are school district and municipal buildings, churches and denominational headquarters, hospitals and medical offices, funeral homes, veterans posts, Square storefronts and manufacturing plants.