Composition
The Arizona flag features a lower half of blue while the upper half features thirteen equally-sized beams, six gold and seven red, radiating from a copper five-pointed star, centered.
Arizona
The Arizona flag was designed in 1910 by Colonel Charles W. Harris, general of the Arizona National Guard, for the Arizona Rifle Team to use in competition. His wife, Mae Harris, sewed the first competition version.
Carl Hayden, Arizona’s first Representative, is also credited with the design and his wife, Nancy Hayden, sewed the first official flag.
The flag was officially adopted February 17, 1917.
Iconography
star
Arizona as one of the largest producers of copper
rays
the setting sun, the original thirteen colonies
Colors
The Arizona flag uses the same blue and red as the U.S. national flag.
Blue and gold are Arizona’s state colors.
Arizona does not provide Cable or Pantone values for the “old gold” or copper.The hex values here are approximations.
Blue
#002147
Cable No. 70075 Old Glory Blue
PMS 282c
Red
#bb133e
Cable No. 70180 Old Glory Red
PMS 193C
Old Gold
#fff22d
Copper
#a96a31
Construction
Arizona statute specifies the proportion and spacing for the flag’s visual elements in feet.
The flag should have a hoist of 4 feet and a fly of 6 feet.
The copper star should be 2 feet tall and positioned 1 foot from the top and 1 foot from the bottom, horizontally centered.
Sources
- Howe, Randy. Flags of the Fifty States: Their Colorful Histories and Significance. Guilford: The Globe Pequot Press, 2002. Print.
- Arizona Revised Statutes. Title 41 - State Government. Section § 41-851 State colors; state flag
- Grant, Peter. Assistant Administrator, Patents and Trademarks, State of Arizona Research Library, personal communication, July 31, 2019.
- Arizona State Legislature
- The American Legion
- Flag of Arizona - Wikipedia