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![[flag of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]](../images/u/us-okokc-l.gif)
13:17 image(s) by permission of David B. Martucci
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Text and image(s) from American City Flags, Raven 9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) from American City Flags by permission of David B. Martucci.
Oklahoma City’s flag has a white field of 13 by 17 units. A
red-line border surrounds it, .5 units from the edges. The seal of the
city, 6.5 units in diameter, is centered on the field. The outer edge of
the seal is a robin’s-egg blue, matching the Oklahoma state flag’s field.
Within that circle is a narrow white ring, on which SEAL OF THE
CITY OF curves clockwise over the top and OKLAHOMA CITY curves
counterclockwise below, all in black. Separating the two legends at 9
and 3 o’clock is a five-pointed black star. The inner field of the seal is
the same blue as the ring’s edge. Centered on the field is a shield,
divided quarterly, its first and fourth quarters in red and second and
third quarters in white. A cross is superimposed over the quarters’
inner edges, itself divided into four sections with their colors
counterchanged (colors alternated) with the quarter they border; thus,
white in the first and fourth quarters, and red in the second and third.
Charged on the quarters are a plow, a hatchet hammering a stake, an
atomic symbol, and a peace pipe. A green oak-leaf wreath borders the
shield on either side.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10, 2002-2003
Mayor Ron Norick asked for a new design after
learning that residents in the sister city of Taipei, Taiwan, could not
immediately recognize Oklahoma City in its former city flag.
Flag adopted: 8 February 1994 (official).
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10, 2002-2003
Mark McFarland, a man with cerebral palsy, who donated
his design to the city.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
The city council gave McFarland a
standing ovation at the session where the flag was adopted. Cognizant
of legal actions taken against other U.S. cities (especially, in this case,
Edmond, Oklahoma) where crosses on flags have been said to represent
Christianity, McFarland maintained that the cross here merely serves as
an “artistic divider” to provide sufficient distance among the various
symbols.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
![[Municipal seal]](../images/u/us-okokc).gif)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 13 November 2019
Source:
https://www.okc.gov/
Paul Bassinson, 13 November
2019
![[1965 flag of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]](../images/u/us-okokc65-l.gif)
image(s) by permission of David B. MartucciThe first flag of the city might be termed an armorial banner, since it is really the blazon of the seal's shield extended into a rectangle. Unlike the current flag, the cross on the original flag is not counterchanged, but a solid white. Mrs. Daniel C. Orcutt created the flag for the city's 75th anniversary and the city council adopted it officially on 20 July 1965. She was inspired by the design of the city's seal, adopted on 23 February 1965 (designer unnamed), and by Donald Hogland, a city resident expert in heraldry (and whose eight-page handwritten letter with carefully drawn illustrations to the council on the subject is officially appended to the ordinance of adoption). The flag's proportions are 2:3.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
![[flag of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]](../images/u/us-ok-okp.gif)
image located by Valentin Poposki, 15 January 2007
From http://www.ocpd.com/:
"OFFICIAL FLAG OF THE OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
The official flag with visuals, verbiage and colors emphasizing the traditions and strength of the Department. The badge was one of the first organized badges to be worn by officers. The navy blue background color depicts police service and the bright gold exemplifies the excellence of the Department. The translations of the Latin words on the banner are Service, Pride and Honor.
The first flag produced is now on display inside the front entrance of Police
Headquarters, above the first stair landing."
Valentin Poposki, 15 January 2007
![[flag of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]](../images/u/us-okokc-fd.jpg)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 16 March 2021
An image of the flag of the Oklahoma City Fire Department obtained from
https://www.facebook.com/OKCFD/photos/a.383370935018903/839074169448575
shows that it is blue with the badge beneath the name.
Paul Bassinsson,
16 March 2021
