Flagpole installation inRapid City, SD

Flagpoles in Rapid City

The commercial centre of western South Dakota, running on healthcare, an air force base and the tourist traffic heading up into the Black Hills. We cover Rapid City and the Pennington County area, including the downtown historic district along Main and St. Joseph, Main Street Square, the West Boulevard historic district, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the Monument Health campus, the Rapid Creek greenway, Canyon Lake, and the I-90 corridor out to Box Elder and Ellsworth Air Force Base.

Wind here. Rapid City sits in an exposed and semi-arid 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. Rapid City sits where the plains run into the Hills, so a site up a draw or out on a shoulder takes a wind the street below it never feels. The 115 on the map is a starting point, not an answer. The city does not build in the Rapid Creek floodplain: after the 1972 flood that ground was cleared and turned into parks, golf courses and playing fields, so a pole meant for the greenway is going on public land and the city settles that first. What is underfoot changes across town as well, Black Hills rock and gravel along the west side, shale plains east of it where the clay opens in a dry August and closes again with the rain. Ellsworth Air Force Base is out at Box Elder, and work for the 28th Bomb Wing or the firms around it brings submittals and a domestic-content question, which every pole we sell answers. Winter is not steady cold here either. A chinook off the Hills takes the temperature up and back down inside an afternoon, so a pole in Rapid City freezes and thaws far more often than a January average suggests, and that is harder on a finish than steady cold ever is.

Most of the people who call us from Rapid City are hotels and tourist businesses on the Rushmore route, defence and base contractors, hospitals and clinics, municipal and county buildings, schools, veterans posts, churches and ranch properties.