Flagpole installation inLawton, OK

Flagpoles in Lawton

An army town in the southwest corner of the state, with Fort Sill on one side, a Goodyear plant and a university on the other, and the Wichita Mountains behind it. We cover Lawton and the Comanche County area, including Fort Sill and the Fires Center of Excellence, the Cameron University campus, downtown Lawton, the Goodyear plant, Comanche County Memorial Hospital, the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and the I-44 corridor.

Wind here. Lawton sits in a wide open and windswept 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. Fort Sill is the largest thing in Comanche County by any measure: about 94,000 acres immediately north of town, home to the Army's Fires Center of Excellence, the Field Artillery School and the Air Defense Artillery School. Work on the post, or for a contractor supplying it, comes with a submittal package and a domestic-content question; every pole we sell is made in the United States and that paperwork goes with the quote rather than after it. The ground changes quickly on the way north — soft red sandstone under the town, then granite in the Wichita Mountains, which stops an auger dead and turns the foundation into rock work. Exposure is the real story here anyway. The map says about 105 mph, the same as Tulsa, but Tulsa has trees and Lawton has a horizon, and the south wind blows steadily right through the summer, so open sites get a heavier wall than the figure alone would buy.

Most of the people who call us from Lawton are army and defence facilities, manufacturing plants, hospitals and clinics, the university and the district school campuses, veterans posts, city buildings and churches.