Colorado (U.S.)

Last modified: 2004-12-22 by rick wyatt
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by Željko Heimer

• Flag Description
• Flag of 1907?
• Flag of 1911
• State Military Crest

Municipal flags of Colorado:

• Aurora
• Colorado Springs
• Denver
• Edgewater
• Loveland

See also:

• Colorado Emblems and Symbols
• United States of America
• States of the United States

In 1877, a star was added, representing Colorado, bringing the total number of stars on the U.S. flag to 38. There were thirteen stripes representing the thirteen original colonies.

Flag Description

Originally adopted in 1911, the law could be interpreted to mean that the red "C" was to be the size of the central white stripe. I have seen some illustrations showing the flag this way. In 1964 the law was corrected to make the central yellow disk the size of the white stripe and the "C" much larger like it was supposed to be.
Nick Artimovich, 31 July 1996

The state flag was adopted on June 5, 1911 by an act of the General Assembly. The flag consists of three alternate stripes of equal width and at right angles to the staff, the two outer stripes to be blue of the same color as in the blue field of the national flag and the middle stripe to be white, the proportion of the flag being a width of two-thirds of its length. At a distance from the staff end of the flag of one fifth of the total length of the flag there is a circular red C, of the same color