Fence company serving Choctaw County MS - Ackerman, Weir, French Camp. Sandy-clay plateau terrain. Field fence, pasture, privacy, and gates. Free quotes.
Wherever you are in Choctaw County - in town in Ackerman, out toward Weir, up near French Camp by the Natchez Trace Parkway, or on acreage in a spot like Reform or Chester - we can get to you. Fortenberry Project Solutions runs out of Starkville and works the whole county, from in-town lots along the US 82 corridor to rural homesites and working land off the county roads. Whether you're fencing a backyard, closing in a pasture for livestock, keeping deer off your property, or setting up an access gate for a timber or farm tract, we'll drive out, walk the ground with you, and give you a straight estimate.
Choctaw County is upland country - it sits in the North Central Plateau, which means rolling, dissected ground and sandy-clay soils rather than flat lots. That matters for how your fence lines up and how well it stays put, and we'll get into that below. A few things we'll sort out for you up front depend on where you are: if your property is inside an incorporated town like Ackerman, Weir, or French Camp, the permit runs through the town, and near French Camp you may be close enough to the Natchez Trace Parkway that it's worth a check. Out on unincorporated county land - which is most of the county - it's more about property lines, easements, and driveway access than any subdivision rulebook.
If your place is in one of the incorporated towns, we start with the town hall or municipal clerk to confirm whether a fence permit or site plan is needed. For unincorporated Choctaw County parcels, that confirmation runs through the Choctaw County Chancery Clerk's office - Chancery Court Clerk Steve Montgomery, P.O. Box 250, Ackerman, MS 39735, phone 662-285-6329 - especially when a fence ties into a new driveway, a recorded easement, or a boundary-line question. You don't have to chase any of that down yourself; tell us where you are and we'll point you to exactly what applies.
If you've got acreage outside Ackerman or out toward Weir and Reform, field fence is usually the smart call - it's the affordable, easy-to-repair way to run a long perimeter that keeps deer out and livestock in without breaking the budget on a big property.
If you're running cattle or working a small farm anywhere in rural Choctaw County, this is built for you: braced corners that hold, wide openings your tractor can actually fit through, and posts set to stand up to the rolling ground you find all over the county.
If you're on a flatter in-town lot in Ackerman, maybe near the schools or the main road corridors, galvanized chain link keeps your sightlines open and pets contained without spending more than you need to.
If you want true privacy around the house - common in Ackerman neighborhoods and near the Natchez Trace access at French Camp - board-on-board gives you full coverage with no gaps, and we rack the panels to follow the county's upland grades so it looks right on sloping ground.
Choctaw County sits in the North Central Plateau - dissected uplands with sandy-clay soils, not the flat, even ground a fence is easiest to build on. Here's what that means for you: the sandy loam up top is soft, but it tightens into clay subsoil as you go down, and the land rolls, so runoff and seasonal movement are always working on your posts. If they're set shallow or in a spot where water pools, that's how a fence starts to lean or a gate starts to sag a few years in. So we set corner and gate posts deeper, in concrete, and place the line posts to keep water draining away instead of sitting around the wood. On the rolling lots you find off US 82 and all through the county-road network, we rack the panels and step the grade changes on purpose so your pickets stay plumb and your gates keep swinging square. You won't see any of that work - but it's the difference between a fence that holds and one that doesn't.
You don't have to figure this out on your own. For most of Choctaw County - the unincorporated land outside the town limits - confirmation runs through the Choctaw County Chancery Court Clerk, Steve Montgomery, at P.O. Box 250, Ackerman, MS 39735, phone 662-285-6329, fax 662-285-3444 (see the [Chancery Court Clerks PDF](https://courts.ms.gov/trialcourts/chancerycourt/chanclerks.pdf)). If you're inside Ackerman, Weir, or French Camp, it's the town instead. Just tell us where your property is and we'll point you to exactly what's needed, or help you handle it.
It depends on where your property sits. If you're inside Ackerman, Weir, or French Camp, each town can set its own permit and setback rules, so that runs through the town. If you're on unincorporated county land - which is most of the county - start by checking with the Choctaw County Chancery Court Clerk's office in Ackerman at 662-285-6329, and follow their direction on any inspections or recorded easements. Either way, you don't have to sort it out alone - tell us where you are and we'll confirm what applies. One thing worth knowing: if your fence line is near a road intersection or on a corner lot, there may be sight-distance expectations to meet before you put up a solid privacy fence, and we'll check that too.
We'll build to whatever rules apply, but honestly most of Choctaw County is rural - properties around Weir, Reform, and Chester are usually governed by surveyed boundaries and county road or easement questions rather than any HOA design rulebook. If you are in one of the newer pockets in or near Ackerman that has deed restrictions or a neighborhood association, just send us the written standards and we'll build to them. And where there's no HOA at all, we keep it simple: nail down the property line and confirm any town or county requirements through the Choctaw County Chancery Clerk's office. Not sure which situation you're in? Send us what you have and we'll figure it out before we schedule anything.
It won't if it's built for the terrain, and that's on us. The French Camp area is dissected-upland ground typical of the North Central Plateau, so we plan for the grade changes from the start instead of fighting them. We sight the top rail line first, then rack sections to follow the slope where we can, and only step the fence where the grade would otherwise leave a gap at the ground. That keeps your lines looking clean, your gates swinging square, and takes the stress off the posts that would otherwise loosen them over time on rolling land.
For long runs on acreage where you're keeping livestock in or deer out, field fence or pasture fence with properly braced corners is usually the most practical and cost-effective way to go. Since you're likely getting in off US 82 and then down smaller county roads, we'll build your gate openings wide enough for equipment and set the hinge posts to take the repeated heavy use that farm and hunting-property gates get. Tell us how you use the land and we'll match the fence to it.
Yes, all the time. With the Southeastern Timber Products sawmill in Ackerman, we see a steady mix of work - agricultural perimeter fencing on timber and land tracts right alongside residential privacy fences for in-town homes. That means we're used to building durable gate openings and access layouts sized for work trucks and equipment moving in and out of a working property, so if that's what you've got, we'll design it to take the traffic.
Call 601-562-2540 or send the project details and FPS will follow up.