Davis Construction

About Davis Construction

Columbus sits in the old tri-state mining country of Cherokee County, where reclaimed strip pits have filled in with water and timber over the decades and the ground rolls instead of running flat the way it does farther west. Davis Construction works those wooded hills and the town's own streets alike, clearing driveways and lot aprons once a southeast Kansas ice storm moves over the oak and hickory that cover this corner of the state. Snow here tends to come wetter and heavier than out on the High Plains, clinging to tree limbs along the Spring River bottoms before it ever reaches the ground, and a driveway shaded by that canopy holds its ice longer than open farm ground would. The crew works Columbus block by block, clearing the residential streets first before pushing out toward the county roads that wind between the old mine ponds. There's a particular kind of quiet in this hilly, timbered corner of Kansas after a storm, and getting a driveway open again is one small way of breaking it.