Flagpole installation inMankato, MN

Flagpoles in Mankato

The bend where the Blue Earth River runs into the Minnesota, and the town south central Minnesota drives to for its hospital, its university and its shopping. We cover Mankato and the Blue Earth County area, including the Highland Campus of Minnesota State up on the bluff, the Mayo Clinic Health System campus, the Blue Earth County Courthouse, North Front Street and the downtown blocks, Sibley Park and the Highway 14 and 169 corridors.

Wind here. Mankato sits in an inland, two-level and half-exposed area, which works out to roughly 115 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. Mankato is two levels and they do not behave the same. The old city sits on the valley floor in the river bend and is genuinely sheltered. Minnesota State moved up off that floor onto the Highland Campus above the bluff, and up there the prairie begins: open ground, a long run of it, and no shelter at all, which is how we size anything on the tableland. Blue Earth is a Zone II county so the frost footing is 3 ft 6 in either way, but the ground down on the flat is river deposit rather than glacial till and takes a wider footing than the same pole needs on the bluff. The city also runs over into Nicollet and Le Sueur at its edges, which changes who inspects the job without changing the depth.

Most of the people who call us from Mankato are university and school buildings, hospital and clinic campuses, county and city facilities, distribution and manufacturing operations, churches, veterans posts and downtown commercial frontage.