Flagpole installation inJonesboro, AR

Flagpoles in Jonesboro

The commercial centre of northeast Arkansas: a state university, two hospital systems and the rice and cotton country that trades through them. We cover Jonesboro and the Craighead County area, including the Arkansas State University campus, downtown and the Craighead County courthouse, St. Bernards Medical Center and the NEA Baptist campus, Craighead Forest Park, Crowley's Ridge, the Craighead Technology Park and the Highland Drive and Turtle Creek retail corridor.

Wind here. Jonesboro sits in an inland, ridge above the Delta 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. Jonesboro sits on Crowley's Ridge, a narrow spine of wind-blown loess standing above flat Delta on both sides of it. Loess holds a vertical face beautifully until water gets into it, and then it cuts, so a footing on the ridge is set for the soil rather than taken off a table, and we would rather look at the spot than guess at it. Step down off the ridge and the ground turns to river silt with the water table close underneath, which wants a broader footing than the same pole needs up top. The other thing here is the New Madrid seismic zone. Craighead County carries one of the highest seismic design categories in the state, so structural drawings get far more scrutiny than a 105 mph wind figure would lead anyone to expect. Out at the farms and the grain elevators there is nothing upwind for miles, and those are sized as open ground whatever the county figure says.

Most of the people who call us from Jonesboro are university and school buildings, hospitals and clinics, grain and agricultural operations, county and city facilities, banks, churches and veterans posts.