Flag of Salt Lake City

The flag of Salt Lake City is blue and green with an emblem of the Wasatch Range with the Salt Lake City skyline in front.

City of Salt Lake City
AdoptedOctober 4, 2006
DesignA horizontal bicolor with green on top and blue on bottom, with an emblem of the city skyline in front of the Wasatch Range with the name "SALT LAKE CITY" in the center
Former Salt Lake City flag, used from 1969 to 2006.

Current design

The current design of the flag was approved on October 4, 2006, by the Salt Lake City Council.[1] Rocky Anderson, the mayor of Salt Lake City at the time, had sponsored a contest in 2004 to redesign the flag. Anderson argued that the "old flag was too exclusive and focused entirely on the city's Mormon heritage."[1]

The contest, which received more than 50 entries, did not produce any designs that the city council felt had the "symbolic visuals that could be associated with Salt Lake City".[2] They then formed a subcommittee to work with the mayor's office to create new designs for the flag.[2] The final design was approved with a 4–2 margin.[1]

Previous design

The previous flag was designed in 1963 by J. Rulon Hales, the winner of a contest run by the Deseret News. The first version of the flag was made by art students from Highland High School and officially adopted for use on November 13, 1969.[3][4] It included seagulls, pioneers, a covered wagon, and the sun rising over the Wasatch Mountains in the middle of a white background.[3] The center was in the general shape of a beehive, which is a symbol of industry and relates to the founding of Salt Lake City and its Mormon heritage.[5]

References
  1. "New city flag shows Salt Lake skyline, Wasatch". Deseret News. October 7, 2006. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  2. Snyder, Brady (February 4, 2005). "Salt Lake flag designs just don't wow City Council". Deseret News. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  3. Purcell, John M.; Croft, James A.; Monahan, Rich (2003). American City Flags: 150 Flags from Akron to Yonkers (PDF). North American Vexillological Association. pp. 310–311. ISBN 978-0-9747728-0-6. OCLC 1011001515. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  4. "City Commissioners Adopt Student-Made S.L. Flag". The Salt Lake Tribune. November 14, 1969. p. B2. Retrieved February 3, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Snyder, Brady (December 1, 2004). "Salt Lake gets 20 flag entries". Deseret News. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
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