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Edmonson County, Kentucky (U.S.)

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 February 2024
based on image located by David Sigley, 6 May 2023
Source: www.edmonsoncounty.com/ecccflag.htm

Description of the flag

- indicates flag is known.
- indicates it is reported that there is no known flag.

Municipal flags in Edmonson County:

Brownsville

See also:

Description of the flag

Edmonson County flag is diagonally divided with red in the upper hoist, white in the broad central band, and blue in the lower fly. On the white band is the county seal, showing a flying eagle.
Valentin Poposki, 27 October 2005

According to the Daily News of January 11, 1989, the flag of Edmonson County was adopted following a contest held by the beautification committee of the Brownsville-Edmonson County Chamber of Commerce held in October for a flag design. About 30 entries were received.

The Edmonson County flag was presented on January 10, 1989 to the county's fiscal court. The flag's designer is Chris Alford, a Brownsville high school art student at the time, who said he designed the flag after talking to several Brownsville businessmen and county officials. He said he used diagonal stripes simply because there is a low amount of national flags using it and was inspired to use the seal as the central design after seeing county officials wear it. Though the meaning of the red, white, and blue is not described, it is obvious these are the national colors.
Daniel Rentería, 6 February 2024

The source website http://www.edmonsoncounty.com/ecccflag.htm) redirects to the main page of the English Wikipedia; its content archived at https://web.archive.org/web (last version July 2008), but the flag image was not stored. This page states also "Flag size – 24 x 36 inches", a 2:3 ratio. The county logo in use back then is not the same design as the seal on the flag: http://www.edmonsoncounty.com/logo%20oval%20use.jpg.

The official county website since 2017 seems to lack a page about the flag; Daniel’s report confirms however that the flag is still in use.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmonson_County_Courthouse.png
See also this pre-2008 photo of the county courthouse, with the county flag hoisted on the same pole as the national flag, under it (state flag absent).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 February 2024

A 3x5 version of the flag is seen here: https://www.facebook.com/EdmonsonCountyTroop597, though the colors are flipped for some reason. Also I included a white border [in an earlier version of the image] intentionally as I had seen it on a photo of the flag before, and its not a fringe. I haven't been able to find the image again, this is the best I can find: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=868774438584902&set=pb.100063570614221.-2207520000&type=3
David Sigley, 9 February 2024