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Allen County, Ohio (U.S.)

image by Valentin Poposki, 29 December 2025
Source: Flags of Ohio

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Seal

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Description of the flag

The Allen County Board of Commissioners unanimously adopted a new county flag during its legislative session April 4.

Creating a new flag for Allen County was one of the many legacy projects accomplished by the bicentennial celebration held throughout 2024.

During the first three months of 2024, the Allen County New Flag Committee, under the direction of the commissioners and the Bicentennial Executive Board, opened a flag design contest and received over 380 flag designs. The contest was open to anyone anywhere, and each participant could submit up to three entries. There was a multi-step process to narrow and hone the designs, which included a panel of 16 Allen County residents that ran flag designs through a rubric, a duplicate image search using Google Lens, consultation with the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma for appropriate image use, and a three-person design team that helped use the top images from the rubric to create the best representation of Allen County. From this process, eight flag prototypes were released to the community in the form of an online survey that collected public comment and a popular vote. Of the eight images, four were direct submissions from the flag contestants and four were amalgamations of some of the strongest design elements received by the Flag Committee. The online survey garnered 1,571 responses.

The image that received a 41% approval rating, which also was the commissioners favorite, was revealed during the Bicentennial Bash, a community celebration honoring Allen County's 200 years that was held at the Memorial Coliseum in November 2024. After that, the Flag Committee worked with Asher Agency to help polish the image and create high-resolution files.

The Board of Commissioners and the Flag Committee thank the members of the Flag Council who helped whittle down the bulk of the entries by using a rubric standardized by the flag design principles codified in a booklet, Good Flag, Bad Flag: How to Design a Great Flag, by Ted Kaye.

Members of the Flag Council were Kaitlin Binkley, Preston Wallace, Rena Bradley, Kathleen Wold O Connell, Nora Nussbaum, Andrew White, Lois Ternet, Patrick Rew, Dave Sheets, Jenna Zabona, RasAmen Oladuwa, Pat Freck, Dave Sheets, Bob Griebel and Ellie Cloud.

Jerome Byanski was commended for submitting one of the most influential flag designs as one of his designs provided direct inspiration for the ring of stars and use of the central motif in the county's seal.

Commissioner Therese Brown read Resolution 04-04-25-03, Dated April 4, 2025, that described the decision process and the new design. Through unanimous vote, Commissioners Ron Turpin and Rich Beck joined her in accepting the resolution for Allen County s new official flag.

https://www.fwbusiness.com/news/article_e81c752c-65d7-4f16-b5e5-aa20812f0ec4.html
Valentin Poposki, 29 December 2025

Previous flag

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 September 2003
Source: Flags of Ohio

Horizontally striped flag with twelve alternating stripes of red and blue (red on top). On this background a seal-like red disc with a broad white rim all heavily lined blue. On the rim sans serif bold capitals reading "ALLEN" on the top arc and "COUNTY" on the bottom; on the center a stylized white scroll, lined and shadowed blue, with "1831" in blue sans serif bold wide digits. A ring of eight white five-pointed stars (stars at 0 deg.), each approx. as high as each stripe, encircles the seal and two double sized such stars are placed on each side outwards, vertically centered on the flag. Lacking a better idea, I used in this image Old Glory Red (R+) and Old Glory Blue (B+++).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 September 2003

The Allen County flag was designed in 1992 by Anthony (Tony) Mikesell, a sophomore at Bath High School. He came up with twelve stripes of red and blue to represent the twelve townships, eight small white stars for the county's incorporated villages, two larger white stars for the two cities, and a large white circle for the State of Ohio. Also included are the name of the county and the year of its founding. Tony chose the colors of red, white, and blue throughout the flag to signify our allegiance to the United States of America. The county was named for either Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen, or John L. Allen from the War of 1812.
Source: www.ohiochannel.org/your_state/ohio_statehouse/education/ohio_county_flags.cfm
Located by Valentin Poposki, 26 September 2007

Seal

image located by Paul Bassinson, 23 February 2019

Source: http://gis.allencountyohio.com/GIS/Image/countyseal.jpg
Paul Bassinson, 23 February 2019