Flag of Tulsa
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| Proportion | 12:19 |
| Adopted | August 17, 1973 |
| Designed by | Raymond Wiman |
The flag of Tulsa consists of an upper one-third and two lower quadrants to form the letter "T." The flag was adopted on August 17, 1973, as part of a celebration of the city's 75th anniversary.
The flag consists of a vertical ellipse separated into an upper one-third and two lower quadrants to form the letter "T" for Tulsa.
The upper one-third is a gold field with a Native American arrowhead of the Snyder variety in back and white facets. This is surrounded by "1898", the year Tulsa was officially incorporated and elected its first mayor, Edward Calkins. Circumscribing the curved edge are two rows of 46 stars to represent Oklahoma being the 46th state admitted to the Union.
The lower left quadrant is a black field with a stylized white oil derrick, representing Tulsa's status as the "Oil Capital of the World" for most of the 20th century.
The lower right quadrant is a blue field with parallel white lines, styled with arcs to for waves. "City of Tulsa Oklahoma" circumscribes the lower half of the ellipse in capital letters.
The flag's design ranked 124th among the flags of 150 U.S. cities in the North American Vexillological Association's "American City Flag Survey of 2004".
Tulsa's first flag was a non-rectangular design with the fly ending in an isosceles triangle. It consisted of a white field with a large red circle in the center with the word "Tulsa" inside. From the red circle emanate eight blue rays and six white rays. In the broader white sections are two red arrows pointing inward, with the words "Unlimited" on the hoist and "Opportunity" on the fly, both in white and in capital letters. The design suggests the brashness of early Tulsa as it grew rapidly with the petroleum industry, attracting visitors, settlers, and businesses, loudly proclaiming a bright future for all. This was adopted on June 5, 1924 during Herman F. Newblock's mayorship and designed by Alfred Perry. W.A. (Rose) Cease sewed the first flag.
Tulsa's second flag consisted of an encircled star containing a globe circumscribed with the words "Tulsa Oklahoma" in capital letters. This was adopted on September 27, 1941 during Clarence H. Veale's mayorship.
In 2017, a group of private citizens organized an effort to design a new flag for the city of Tulsa. The effort, called the Tulsa Flag Project, received more than four hundred designs, of which three were chosen as finalists. Of the more than eight thousand votes cast by citizens on these finalists, more than half were for the winning design.
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