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image by Rob Raeside, 22 August 2014
based on City of Fort Worth website, 15 July 2004
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The city council of Fort Worth Texas, decided to change the flag of the city, making the new flag official on 6 July 2004.
Fred, 15 July 2004
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image(s) by permission of David B. Martucci
image(s) from American City Flags,
Raven
9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association,
which retains copyright.
Text and image(s) from American City Flags, Raven 9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) from American City Flags by permission of David B. Martucci.
The Fort Worth flag is a horizontal tribar of light blue,
white, and green stripes in proportions of 2:3:2. Across the top stripe,
in black block letters, is FORT WORTH, occupying most of the stripe.
Centered on the green stripe, in similar letters, is TEXAS. The white
stripe displays a frontal silhouette of a stylized black “Texas Longhorn”
head stretching nearly the entire length of the flag.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10, 2002-2003
The city council and the art commission co-sponsored
a contest for a city flag, the winner to receive $250.
Flag adopted: 4 September 1968 (official).
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10, 2002-2003
Winner of the prize for his design was Richard Pruitt, a
commercial advertising artist and Fort Worth resident.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
Of the 153 entries submitted in the flag contest, 42 finalists were displayed in the Fort Worth Art Center. The public voted for a favorite flag, but the judges chose a different design, since they were not bound by the public vote. The judges were Dr. Richard Fargo Brown, curator for the Kimbell Museum; Jack T. Holmes, a public relations executive; and Mrs. Edwin R. Hudson, Sr., president of the Tarrant County Historical Society.
In November 1969, a Fort Worth flag was taken to the moon on the
Apollo 12 flight by Cmdr. Alan L. Bean, a former Fort Worth resident
and a graduate of a high school there.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
image by Rob Raeside, 22 August 2014
Based on: www.fwcando.org
A larger version of the flag was provided by Ethan Bell (click on image for larger version)
image by Ethan Bell, 15 May 2019
image by Eugene Ipavec, 11 February 2010
The Diocese of Fort Worth consists of 56 congregations serving 24 North Central Texas counties. The flag is purple with the diocesan seal in the center. The seal can be seen at stmatthews-comanche.org/history_diocese_fort_worth.htm which also
includes a history and description of the seal.
Ned Smith, 21 September 2009
image located by Paul Bassinson, 31 December 2019
Source:
http://fortworthtexas.gov/uploadedImages/City_Secretary/CITY%20SEAL.jpg
Paul Bassinson, 31 December 2019