Flagpole installation inTupelo, MS

Flagpoles in Tupelo

The commercial and medical centre of north Mississippi: a hospital long described as the largest rural one in the country, an arena and conference centre, and a furniture and distribution trade that draws from several counties. We cover Tupelo and the Lee County area, including downtown and Main Street, the Elvis Presley Birthplace, North Mississippi Medical Center, the Cadence Bank Arena, the Natchez Trace Parkway headquarters and visitor centre, Barnes Crossing and the North Gloster corridor, the Tupelo Furniture Market on Coley Road and the Itawamba Community College campus.

Wind here. Tupelo sits in a rolling inland northeast Mississippi 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. The mapped figure at Tupelo is about 115 mph, the flat number most of the state works to, and it is not what has taken poles down here. Tupelo takes tornadoes. The 1936 storm is still among the deadliest recorded anywhere in the country, and an EF3 came through the town on 28 April 2014. No flagpole is sold against a tornado, ours included, but it is the reason we would rather put a mild wind figure into stainless hardware and a properly sized footing than into a cheaper shaft. The ground is not uniform across the city either. Lee County sits on the edge of the Black Prairie, where the soil comes off chalk and swells wet and shrinks dry, while other parts of town are sandier ridge ground that drains, so two jobs four miles apart are not the same hole. The Natchez Trace Parkway headquarters and visitor centre are here, and the Trace itself is National Park Service ground through the county, so anything on it is federal work rather than city work.

Most of the people who call us from Tupelo are hospital and clinic buildings, furniture manufacturers and distribution centres, college and school campuses, banks and downtown commercial frontage, churches, city and county buildings and veterans organisations.