For other uses, see Salt Lake City (disambiguation)
The flag of Salt Lake City, Utah, is a horizontal bicolor of blue and white, with a depiction of a sego lily in the canton.
Symbolism[]
The white is for salt and the blue is for the Great Salt Lake for which the City is named. The Sego Lily is Utah's state flower, and it has three petals because Salt Lake City is the only state capital with a three-word name.
Former flag (2006-2020)[]
The previous flag was a horizontal bicolor of blue and green and shows a simplified city skyline with a stylized illustration of the Wasatch Mountains as a backdrop. The words "Salt Lake City" are stitched below the skyline. The flag was adopted in 2006.
First flag (1969-2006)[]
The first flag of the city is just the city's coat of arms in a white background. It was adopted in 23 September 1969.
Symbolism[]
The beehive refers to Utah’s nickname, “The Beehive State”. The scene suggests the arrival of the Mormon pioneers at the Great Salt Lake in 1847, when their leader, Brigham Young, said, “This is the place”, indicating where they would settle and found the city. The seagulls, the state bird, recall the seemingly miraculous arrival of a flock of seagulls early in the state’s history to devour a plague of crickets (Mormon grasshoppers) that had threatened the new settlers’ crops.
2004 NAVA survey[]
It ranked 99th on the 2004 NAVA city flag survey, with a score of 3.47 out of 10, behind Greensboro, and ahead of Stockton.
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