Missouri

Missouri
Country	United States
Flag of Missouri
Designer	Marie Elizabeth Watkins Oliver
Adopted	4 September 1913
Score in 2001 NAVA survey	4.50/10 (48th of 72)
Wikipedia article

The flag of Missouri is a horizontal tricolor of of red, white and blue. These represent valor, purity, vigilance, and justice. The colors also reflect the state's historic status as part of French Louisiana. In the center white stripe is the Seal of Missouri, circled by a blue band containing 24 stars, symbolizing Missouri's admission as the 24th U.S. state. The flag is described in Section 010.020 of Missouri's Revised Statutes.

Except for the Seal of Missouri in its middle, the flag is identical with the Flag of the Netherlands; this resemblance is not, however, intended to denote any special relation between Missouri and the Netherlands.

In 2001, the North American Vexillological Association surveyed its members on the designs of the 72 US State, US Territory and Canadian province flags. The Missouri flag ranked in the bottom 25, 48th out of the 72.

Historical Flags of Missouri

Shown below are flags that have represented Missouri in some capacity or that are associated with the state's history in some way.

"Bowen" or "Missouri Battle Flag", regimental flag used by MO Confederate troops.

"Van Dorn Battle Flag", used by MO Confederate regiments under General Van Dorn.

Flag of the Missouri State Guard, 1861-1865 (Confederate)

Missouri 24 star Militia Flag

Proposals for a New Flag of Missouri

Shown below are designs that have been proposed for a new flag of Missouri.

MO Flag Propopsal "Vexilo"

MO Flag Proposal "lizard-socks"

MO flag proposal by 5thEye

Missouri flag proposal MOTX72

Missouri flag proposal MOTX72 02

Missouri flag proposal MOTX72 03

MO Flag Proposal "VoronX 2"

MO Flag Proposal "VoronX 1"

MO Flag Proposal "Sammy"

MO Flag Proposal "ah-sue"

MO Flag Proposal "French Heritage and a river runs through it - by Usacelt"

Missouri State Flag Symplistic Proposal. The Missouri River (blue stripe) dissects the Till Plains (white). The red is the Ozark Mountains. By Ed Mitchell. 2013.

MO Flag Proposal "Tibbetts"

MO Flag Proposal "Lord Grattan"

MO Flag Proposal "Jack Expo"

MO Flag Proposal by Kermitdefrog

MO Flag Proposal "BionicWilliam"

MO Flag Proposal "Bezbojnicul"

MO Flag Proposal "BigRed618" modified by Ben Karnell

MO Flag Proposal "AlternateUniverseDesigns"

Missouri State Flag Proposal No. 1 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 23 OCT 2014 at 1320hrs cst

Missouri State Flag Proposal No. 1b Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 23 OCT 2014 at 1327hrs cst

Missouri flag proposal 1 by Hans. Dec 2013. (details)

Missouri flag proposal 2 by Hans. Dec 2013. (details)

Missouri flag proposal 3 by Hans. Oct 2014. (details)

Missouri flag proposal 4 by Hans. Oct 2014. (details)

Missouri flag proposal 5 by Hans. Feb 2017. (details)

Missouri State Flag Proposal No. 6 Designed By: Stephen Richard Barlow 06 APR 2015 at 0830 HRS CST.

24 stars on Octagon since Missouri has 8 neighbour states. Design by Rotten Ali.

Missouri state flag proposed by Ken Morton.

My second design for a Missouri state flag, building upon a 2014 design by "Hans" - Posted by Ken Morton

Redesign of the Flag of Missouri by Sage .A. Rollins

Redesign by SimplisticFlags. January 2019. (details)

Update to design by Ken Morton. The flag retains the spirit of the current flag with some updates. Red and white stripes traditionally represent valor and purity, respectively. The blue represents three things: the permanency, vigilance, and justice of the state. The colors also reflect the state's historic status as part of the French Louisiana (New France). The center white wavy stripe symbolizes the Missouri River and the historic east to west direction of migrants moving westward through the historic Gateway to the West. The center badge is an abstraction of the state seal, with the star repressing the sate and the round shape representing the Gateway Arch and its reflection onto the Mississippi River. Posted by Preston Knapp [1]

MO Flag Proposal "apollohawkridge 1"

MO Flag Proposal "apollohawkridge 2"

MO Flag Proposal "apollohawkridge 3"

MO Flag Proposal "apollohawkridge 4"

Proposal for a flag for Missouri. All colors are taken from the current Missouri flag (from the seal). The shapes represent the St. Louis arch, and the colors are brown for the woods, green for the fields and light blue for the river. By Qaz Dec 2019 (details)

Design for a Missouri state flag. A revision of an earlier design by "Motx72". (Posted byKen Morton)

Missouri (Posted by Ken Morton)

Part of series of designs for state flags, all in blue and white. (Posted by Ken Morton)

This is my interpretation of the "banner of arms" of Missouri, as derived from the coat of arms, which I present here as an alternative to the state flag. To simplify the design, I reduced the number of colors to three. I did so by using the US coat of arms as found on the US Coast Guard Flag. I also replaced the bear, which lacks detail and looks like tired, with the bear found on the crest of Missouri Army National Guard coat of arms.

Common symbolism

Gateway Arch

Missouri state quarter

The Gateway Arch is a monument in Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis. Designed by Eero Saarinen, it is 192 m (630 ft) wide and tall (the tallest arch in the world) and was built in 1963–65, although Luther Ely Smith's original idea for the monument dates from 1933. Originally symbolizing the US's westward expansion, it has become a popular symbol of the city of St. Louis, as well as one of the state: it appears in the background on Missouri's state quarter.