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![[flag of Independence, Missouri]](../images/u/us-moind69.gif)
image by Masao Okazaki, 1 April 2021
Source: unknown
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The pre-2014 city flag, based on this photograph. A white field with a black wagon wheel in the center, the word "INDEPENDENCE" in red letters below, and the motto "Queen City of The Trails" in script above.
Randy Young, 25 August 2014
Independence MO held a flag contest in 2014, but I suspect that the winner
was never adopted by the city council. All photos of flags used since 2014 are
of the "old" flag.
A photo of the "old" flag is in this article about
the contest from 2014:
https://www.examiner.net/article/20140127/news/140128784
Bigger version
of photo:
https://www.examiner.net/storyimage/MO/20140127/NEWS/140128784/AR/0/AR-140128784.jpg
Photos since 2014:
https://www.facebook.com/CityofIndependence/photos/10156363210743157
https://www.facebook.com/CityofIndependence/photos/10156003602383157
https://www.facebook.com/CityofIndependence/photos/10155644775258157
https://www.facebook.com/CityofIndependence/photos/10154601810603157
The supposedly new 2014 flag in Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/CityofIndependence/photos/10152177555578157/
The supposed "new" flag is announced on page 2 of this pdf file:
http://www.ci.independence.mo.us/UserDocs/CityNet/CityScene/201407.pdf
Attached are my drawings of the "old"/currently used flag. There are at
least 2 different versions, the one being used now and the version used is this
2012 photo:
https://www.examiner.net/storyimage/MO/20121120/NEWS/311209871/AR/0/AR-311209871.jpg
Masao Okazaki, 1 April 2021
![[flag of Independence, Missouri]](../images/u/us-moind69a.gif)
image by Masao Okazaki, 1 April 2021
![[flag of Independence, Missouri]](../images/u/us-moind.gif)
image located by Randy Young, 25 August 2014
Source: unknown
Independence, Missouri adopted a new city flag in June 2014: www.ci.independence.mo.us/Story.aspx?id=3902
Dave Fowler, 24 August 2014
This is the recently adopted city flag, taken from www.ci.independence.mo.us/Story.aspx?id=3902. I copied the flag off the website and brought it to FOTW standard. According to the flag's designer, "the symbolism of the wagon wheel and three stars ... representing the Santa Fe,
California, and Oregon trails and the City's role in the westward expansion of the United States. The colors of red, white, and blue provide a connection to the United States and Missouri flags, are a tribute to President Harry S. Truman
[from Independence], and honor an American city which shares A NAME with the Declaration of Independence."
Randy Young, 25 August 2014
![[municipal seal]](../images/u/us-moind).gif)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 30 September 2019
Image source:
https://www.transformgov.org/...Independence.jpg
Paul Bassinson, 30 September 2019
