Iowa (U.S.)

Last modified: 2004-12-22 by rick wyatt
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by Mario Fabretto, 24 February 1998

• Legal Description
• History of the Iowa State Flag
• State Military Crest

Municipal flags:

• Ames
• Burlington
• Davenport
• Des Moines
• Fairfield
• Fort Dodge
• Madrid

See also:

• Hancock County
• Jefferson County
• Mahaska County
• Sac and Fox Nations of Iowa
• Iowa County flags (black and white scans of illustrations from The Counties and Courthouses of Iowa, by LeRoy Pratt (1977)
• Battle Flag Preservation Project (Iowa Historical Society)
• United States of America
• States of the United States

In 1847, a star was added, representing Iowa, bringing the total number of stars on the U.S. flag to 29. There were thirteen stripes representing the thirteen original colonies.

Code of Iowa

1B.1 Specifications of state flag. The banner designed by the Iowa society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and presented to the state is hereby adopted as the state flag for use on all occasions where a state flag may be fittingly displayed. The design consists of three vertical stripes of blue, white, and red, the blue stripe being nearest the staff and the white stripe* being in the center. On the central white strip