Flagpole installation inRio Rancho, NM

Flagpoles in Rio Rancho

New Mexico's third city, laid out on the mesa above Albuquerque out of a 1960s land sale, with chip fabrication, a hospital campus, a very large school district and a purpose-built downtown in it. We cover Rio Rancho and the Sandoval County area, including City Center and the events centre, Loma Colorado, Enchanted Hills, Cabezon, Broadmoor, the Unser Boulevard and NM 528 corridors and the Paseo del Volcan approaches.

Wind here. Rio Rancho sits in a mesa-top, open and windswept 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. Rio Rancho was platted before it was a city. AMREP bought 55,000 acres of mesa here in 1961 and sold the lots to buyers who mostly never saw them, so far more of the plat was drawn than has ever been built and plenty of parcels still sit at the end of a dirt road. Give us the address rather than the street name, because access is what decides how a concrete truck reaches the hole. Nothing shelters this mesa either, and the ground west of Unser runs open to the horizon, so very little here is a sheltered site and we size it accordingly. One more, if the flag is to be lit after dark: New Mexico has had a night sky statute since 1999 and shielded fixtures are the rule under it, so read the rules before you buy the light rather than after.

Most of the people who call us from Rio Rancho are school district and college buildings, manufacturing and technology campuses, medical offices, community and homeowner associations, churches and retail frontage.