Flag Of Colorado

The outer stripes are the same color blue as the national flag separated by a white center stripe.

Flag of colorado. Current flag of colorado with main information about colorado state. Colorado flag state usa united states. Native american french and spanish names alternate with those of frontier americans and many ghost towns are reminders of the thousands of prospectors and homesteaders who streamed into the territory in the mid 19th century to pursue dreams of gold silver and grain bonanzas. The colorado state flag consists of three equally sized stripes.

Image by jaume ollé 25 january 2001. You will also learn the location of the state. The flag of the state of colorado has three horizontal stripes of the same width. No white circle and no word.

If i understand correctly this was an unofficial colorado state flag 1907 1911. However the c in the center of the flags was much smaller and the shades of red and blue were different from those in the national flag. The top and bottom stripes are blue and the middle stripe white. The colorado state flag was adopted on june 5 1911.

58 svg published by. The flag of the state of colorado is a bicolor horizontal triband of blue and white charged with a circular red letter c filled with a golden disk. According to whitney smith flag book of the u s 1975 page 72 and he admits his is a reconstruction the flag had the seal you show but directly on a blue background. The top and bottom stripes are blue and the middle stripe white on top of these stripes sits a circular red c filled with a golden disk.

The blue is meant to represent the skies the gold stands for the sunshine enjoyed by the state the white represents the snowcapped mountains and the red represents the earth. The red c stands for the name of the state recalling the spanish word colorado red the origin. Flag of flag of colorado usa. On top of these stripes sits a circular red c filled with a golden disk.

State flag consisting of horizontal blue white blue stripes and a red c surrounding a yellow gold disk like many of the western states colorado has an easily recognizable design for its flag. There is a large semi circular c on the flag which is the same shade of red as the u s. That is it consists of three horizontal stripes of equal width the top and bottom stripes blue and the middle stripe white on top of which sits a circular red c filled with a golden disk. The blue is meant to represent the skies the gold is said to either stand for the sunshine enjoyed by the state or.

Colorado s history is written in the names of its cities towns mountain ranges and passes. The precursors of the current flag utilized the same colors as the ones in the current flag.