Wyoming

flag of Wyoming
The Equality State
Admitted July 10, 1890

In 1916, the Wyoming Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) organized a contest to design the state flag.

The winning design, featuring the state seal upon a bison, was submitted by Verna Keays, a local artist. Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, state regent for DAR, suggested the bison be flipped so it faced the hoist.

With this change, the flag was offically adopted January 31, 1917.

Composition

The Wyoming flag features an outside border of red and an inner border of white.

Inside the borders, a panel of blue is charged with a white silhouetted bison, centered.

Upon the bison’s shoulder is the state seal in blue and white.

In the 2001 North American Vexillological Association (NAVA) flag survey of United States and Canada flags, the flag of Wyoming was ranked 23rd out of 72.

flag of Wyoming

Iconography

  • a left-facing bison

    bison

    state mammal, regional fauna

  • seal

    western custom of branding

  • a woman and a banner inscribed “Equal Rights”

    woman

    equality, women’s suffrage

  • two columns wrapped with banners reading “Livestock, Mining, agriculture, Oil”

    pillars

    livestock, mining, agriculture, oil industries

  • a cowboy

    cowboy

    livestock, rodeo

  • a miner with pickax

    miner

    mining industry

  • an eagle and striped shield

    eagle

    freedom, the United States

  • 1869 and 1890 inscribed on a banner

    1869 & 1890

    year Wyoming Territory established women’s suffrage, year of Wyoming’s statehood

  • star

    star

    Wyoming as the 44th state

Colors

The Wyoming flag uses the same red, white, and blue as the U.S. national flag.

According to Keays, the blue represented fidelity, justice, and virility. The red symbolized the Native peoples and the blood spilled in war. The white represented purity and uprightness.

Blue
#002147
Cable No. 70075 Old Glory Blue
PMS 282c
Red
#bb133e
Cable No. 70180 Old Glory Red
PMS 193C
White
#ffffff
Cable No. 70001 White
Pantone White

Construction

The Wyoming flag has a proportion of 7:10.

The red border is 1/20 and the white border is 1/40 the length of the fly.

The bison is 1/2 the length of the blue field and the state seal is 1/5 the length of the fly.

construction sheet for the flag of Wyoming

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