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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 August 2007
Based on: www.waymarking.com
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Concentric rectangles of light blue, green and dark yellow with brown monochrome seal in the middle.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 August 2007
Dubuque is a city in the U.S. State of Iowa, located along the Mississippi River. Its population was estimated at 57,798 in 2005, making it the eighth-largest city in the state. It is the county seat of Dubuque County, and the center of the Dubuque Metropolitan Area, which has a population of 92,384. The city lies at the junction of 3 states: Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, a region locally known as the Tri-State Area. It serves as the main commercial, industrial, educational, and cultural center for the area. Dubuque is the oldest city in Iowa, and played a key role in the early settlement of the state, and the Upper Midwest. For this reason, it is commonly called the "Key City."
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From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubuque,_Iowa.
The city flag can be seen in Waymarking website at www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=0b76da62-afec-4651-9666-7451c00102ae&exp=True/.
Valentin Poposki,, 26 June 2007
The center object seems to be the city seal. It can be seen in better detail at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DubuqueCitySeal.JPG.
Steve Shumaker, 11 July 2007
According to the city's website at
https://www.cityofdubuque.org/1553/Dubuques-Flag, a project for the flag of
Dubuque was created by the City Council in 1967 named "Operation Flag" after a
request by the local Girl Scouts, where both citizens and students at the local
schools were encouraged to submit their designs to a jury of a group of
citizens. In the end, the jury chose the design by Mrs. Maureen Frommelt, whose
design had the past, present, and future in mind represented each by the colors
of blue, green, and yellow. Blue is the waters of the Mississippi, which has
much importance to Dubuque's history. Green is for Dubuque's present scenic
beauty, and yellow for a bright future for Dubuque. Dubuque's flag was adopted
July 3, 1967 at a city council meeting.
Daniel Rentería, 22
September 2023
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 4 August 2007
The seal follows a mostly generic pattern. What makes it more distinguishable
is the text "La Petite Nuit" which means "the little night", a name given by the
Meskquakie Native Americans to Julien Dubuque, the city's founder, and was even
used as his name in the original registration where the Fox gave him permission
to mine lead in those lands.
Daniel Rentería, 22 September 2023