Flagpole installation inMissoula, MT

Flagpoles in Missoula

A university and hospital town on the flat floor of a glacial lake bed, and the commercial centre for the western third of the state. We cover Missoula and the Missoula County area, including the University of Montana campus under Mount Sentinel, Higgins Avenue and Caras Park, the Slant Streets, the Northside, Fort Missoula, Southgate and the Reserve Street corridor.

Wind here. Missoula sits in an inland, sheltered and low-lying 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 city keeps its published numbers short, 105 mph and a frost depth of three feet, and leaves the rest to the site. That is the right way round here. Missoula sits on the bed of Glacial Lake Missoula, which is why the valley floor is so flat and why the ground under it is so inconsistent: silty loam on one block, loose river gravel on the next, and a gravel hole sloughs where a silt hole stands up. The town drinks from that same gravel, since the Missoula Valley Aquifer is the water supply, so nothing goes into the ground here casually and every hole is worth a look before it is dug. Downtown and the corridors around it fall under the Design Excellence overlays in Title 20, which write their own standards over the base zoning, and the city's Historic Preservation Commission takes an interest in the older blocks on top of that. With the mildest mapped figure of the Montana towns we cover, the shaft is rarely the expensive part of a Missoula job.

Most of the people who call us from Missoula are university and school buildings, the two hospital campuses, downtown offices and restaurants, churches, veterans posts, the dealerships along Reserve Street and community associations up in the South Hills.