Flagpole installation inSouthaven, MS

Flagpoles in Southaven

The third-largest city in Mississippi and the biggest of the Memphis suburbs: retail, distribution, an arena and expo centre and a hospital, all within a few miles of the state line. We cover Southaven and the DeSoto County area, including the Landers Center, Snowden Grove Park and the BankPlus Amphitheater, Tanger Outlets Southaven, Southaven Towne Center, Silo Square, Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto, Stateline Road, Church Road and the Goodman Road and I-55 corridors.

Wind here. Southaven sits in a sheltered north Mississippi suburban 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. Southaven works to the same 115 mph as most of Mississippi, so a standard-wall shaft is usually right and the money can go into height, finish and hardware. What earns the attention here is the ground. DeSoto County is loess, the windblown silt that forms the Memphis bluffs, and the Loring and Grenada soils under most of the city carry a fragipan — a dense layer a couple of feet down that water will not drain through. So a hole can auger easily and then stand full of water above that pan, which means the footing is designed for drainage as much as for load. Loess also cuts to a vertical face and then erodes, so spoil does not sit open on these sites. One thing more shows up on the engineer's sheet rather than in the pole itself: DeSoto County lies close enough to the New Madrid seismic zone to carry the highest seismic design values in Mississippi, and a permitted commercial installation is checked against them.

Most of the people who call us from Southaven are distribution and warehouse buildings, retail centres and hotels, hospital and medical offices, schools, churches, homeowners associations and municipal and county facilities.