Flagpole installation inOshkosh, WI

Flagpoles in Oshkosh

A manufacturing and university town at the point where the Fox River meets Lake Winnebago, with an airport that fills up for one week every July. We cover Oshkosh and the Winnebago County area, including Wittman Regional Airport and the EAA grounds, the UW Oshkosh campus, the Fox River waterfront, the downtown Main Street blocks and the Grand Opera House, Menominee Park on the Lake Winnebago shore, and the industrial corridors along I-41.

Wind here. Oshkosh sits in an open lakeside 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. Two things make Oshkosh its own job. The first is the airport. Wittman Regional sits two miles south of downtown, and for the week of the airshow it is the busiest airport in the world by aircraft movements, so a tall structure near the approach can need federal notice filed before it goes up. We settle that before agreeing a height, not after. The second is Lake Winnebago, the largest lake wholly inside Wisconsin and only about fifteen feet deep on average, which gives you miles of open fetch in summer and, when the ice breaks up in spring, shoves that push ridges of ice well up the shore and have taken shoreline structures with them. On lakeside ground the question is where the pole stands, not how tall it is. The Landmarks Commission reviews exterior work in the local historic districts, and that goes in ahead of the permit.

Most of the people who call us from Oshkosh are vehicle and packaging plants, university and school buildings, county and city facilities, aviation and hangar operators, marinas and lakeside parks, churches and veterans posts.