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![[Flag of Santa Clara, Utah]](../images/u/us-utscl.gif) image located by Daniel Rentería, 10 January 2025
 
image located by Daniel Rentería, 10 January 2025
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Santa Clara uses the Swiss flag in 2:3 ratio as its flag, as seen at the town hall on Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vVg734DN3Fk6eADNA.
Daniel Rentería, 10 January 2025
Wikipedia reports the role of Swiss immigrants in Santa Clara's early 
history:
"[...] The first settlers built Fort Clara or also known as Fort 
Santa Clara, in the winter of 1855–1856. In the fall of 1861, Swiss immigrant 
members of The Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) arrived at the new 
settlement. Shortly afterward, in early 1862, they were victims of a severe 
flood in the Santa Clara River valley that destroyed the fort and most other 
buildings, along with already existing irrigation dams and ditches. This event 
was part of the infamous Great Flood of 1862. [...]
19th century Santa Clara 
was largely inhabited by immigrants who had earlier converted to Latter-day 
Saints faith in Switzerland of Europe and subsequently crossed the Atlantic 
Ocean and westward-moving across the North America continent to come to Utah. 
Among these was Daniel Bonelli, who after the 1862 flood became a pioneer 
colonist of St. Thomas, Nevada in the Moapa Valley. [...]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara,_Utah 
Martin Karner, 
11 January 2025
![[City logo]](../images/u/us-utscl-logo.gif) image located by Paul Bassinson, 22 January 2020
 
image located by Paul Bassinson, 22 January 2020
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https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/
Paul 
Bassinson, 22 January 2020