Flag of Ohio
official flag of the U.S. state of Ohio
The flag of Ohio, also known as the Ohio Burgee, is a red, white, and blue U.S. state flag with a distinctive triangular swallowtail shape. The flag's elements symbolize the state's natural features and order of admission into the Union. A prominent disc at the flag's hoist suggests the letter O, the first letter in Ohio's name.
For nearly a century after statehood, Ohio did not have a legally authorized state flag. John Eisenmann designed Ohio's flag in 1901 for the Pan-American Exposition and the flag was officially adopted the next year.
Ohio has adopted an official salute to its flag as well as an official folding procedure. The Ohio flag has influenced a number of logos and municipal flags within the state. A scarlet-colored gubernatorial flag is based on the state seal.
Statute
The Ohio state flag's design is defined in the Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 5, § 5.01, as:
The flag of the state shall be burgee-shaped. It shall have three red and two white horizontal stripes...The union of the flag shall be seventeen five-pointed stars, white in a blue triangular field...the base of which shall be the staff end or vertical edge of the flag, and the apex of which shall be the center of the middle red stripe.
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