Flagpole installation inPierre, SD

Flagpoles in Pierre

A small state capital on the Missouri, where government is the industry and the Capitol complex is the reason most of the work exists. We cover Pierre and the Hughes County area, including the Capitol complex and Capitol Lake, the Flaming Fountain and the Trail of Governors, downtown Pierre, the Missouri River bluffs, Fort Pierre across the bridge, and the Oahe Dam and Lake Oahe above town.

Wind here. Pierre sits in a bluff-top and unsheltered 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. Pierre stands on the open Missouri bluff, and from here down to Chamberlain there is no shelter on either bank, so a site above the cut gets the full run of the river. The Capitol grounds set the other half of the job. The building is on the National Register, and the lawn already carries the Flaming Fountain, the veterans memorials by Capitol Lake and the Trail of Governors bronzes, so a new pole up there is placed against what is already standing rather than dropped where there is room. Underfoot is the shale that took its name from this place, and weathered Pierre Shale will not hold still, so the footing goes past it rather than stopping where frost alone would stop. Say which side of the river you are on, as well. Fort Pierre is Stanley County, and that is a different courthouse.

Most of the people who call us from Pierre are state agency buildings, county and city facilities, banks and law offices, schools, churches, veterans posts, river marinas and lodges, and ranch headquarters out of town.