Minnesota (U.S.)

Last modified: 2005-02-26 by rick wyatt
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by Mario Fabretto, 24 February 1998

• Legal Description
• Shade of Blue
• Nineteen stars
• Pre-1957 flag
• Proposals for a new flag
• State Seal
• State Military Crest
• Red Lake Ojibwe

Municipal flags:

• Bayport
• Chisago
• Elk River
• Farmington
• International Falls
• Mankato
• Minneapolis
• Rochester
• St. Paul
• Virginia
• Zumbrota
• Minnesota municipalities with incomplete flag information

See also:

• United States of America
• States of the United States

• History of the Minnesota flag

• The North Star flag: A proposal for a new Minnesota state flag

In 1858, a star was added, representing Minnesota, bringing the total number of stars on the U.S. flag to 32. There were thirteen stripes representing the thirteen original colonies.

Minnesota Statutes
1.141 Official state flag.
Subdivision 3. Description. The design of the flag shall conform substantially to the following description:

The staff is surmounted by a bronze eagle with outspread wings; the flag is rectangular in shape and is on a medium blue background with a narrow gold border and a golden fringe. A circular emblem is contained in the center of the blue field. The circular emblem is on a general white background with a yellow border. The word MINNESOTA is inscribed in red lettering on the lower part of the white field. The white emblem background surrounding a center design contains 19 five pointed stars arranged symmetrically in four groups of four stars each and one group of three stars. The latter group is in the upper part of the center circular white emblem. The group of stars at the top in the white emblem consists of three stars of which the uppermost star is the largest and represents the north star. A center design is contained on the white emblem and is made up of the scenes from the great seal of the state of Minnesota, surrounded by a border of intertwining Cypripedium reginae, the state flower, on a blue field of the same color as the general flag background. The flower border design contains the figures 1819, 1858, 1893. The coloring is the same on both sides of the flag, but the lettering and the figures appear reversed on one side.

The flag of Minnesota has the state seal in its center. Around the seal is a wreath of the state flower , the lady slipper. Three dates are woven into the wreath.
            1858 - the year Minnesota became a state,