County and Municipal Flags of Arizona (U.S.)

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• County and Municipal Flags of Arizona

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

County flags:

Apache County Cochise County Coconino County Gila County Graham County

Greenlee County La Paz County Maricopa County Mohave County Navajo County

Pima County Pinal County Santa Cruz County Yavapai County Yuma County

Municipal flags:

Apache Junction Avondale Benson Bisbee Buckeye Bullhead City Camp Grande Carefree Casa Grande Cave Creek Chandler Chino Valley Clarkdale Clifton Colorado City Coolidge Cottonwood Dewey-Humboldt Douglas Duncan Eagar  El Mirage Eloy

Flagstaff Florence Fountain Hills Fredonia Gila Bend Gilbert Glendale Globe Gold Canyon Goodyear Grand Canyon Guadalupe Hayden Holbrook Huachuca City Jerome Kearny Kingman Lake Havasu City Litchfield Park Mammoth Marana Maricopa Mesa Miami Nogales

Oro Valley Page Paradise Valley Parker Patagonia Payson Peoria Phoenix Pima Pinetop-Lakeside Prescott Prescott Valley Quartzsite Queen Creek Safford Sahuarita St. Johns San Luis Scottsdale Sedona Show Low Sierra Vista Snowflake Somerton South Tucson Springerville

Star Valley Sun City Sun City West Superior Surprise Taylor Tempe Thatcher Tolleson Tombstone Tucson Tusayan Wellton Wickenburg Willcox Williams Winkelman Winslow Youngtown Yuma

See also:

• Arizona
• United States of America
• States of the United States

County and Municipal Flags of Arizona

Most of Arizona’s municipal flags were adopted from 2000 to the 2010’s. In 2000, the tradition known as the Parade of Flags, proposed by Mayor Elaine Scruggs of Glendale, was started and inspired towns to adopt their own flags. This proposal was made in order to honor each municipality and learn more about them. In this tradition, an involved citizen/municipal official walks around at the annual Arizona League conference and unfurls the flag of his or her municipality.

Other main causes for the adoption of a flag include the opening of a new city hall and the adoption of a new logo; most of Arizona’s municipalities already have a flag, meaning nowadays flags are not adopted as often, while those that do adopt new flags most often do so for the latter reason. As standard with American municipal flags, the flag of a municipality in Arizona often bears a municipal logo/seal and is designed by a municipal official. Flags designed with the help of a community have really only been adopted in the Phoenix area and are rare.

On the other hand, a quarter of Arizona’s few yet big counties have flags. Part of the reason is because there is no “parade of flags” for these counties, however it appears that the main reason is that there is a belief that there is no need in adopting one. Maricopa County and Yavapai County have distinctive flags, used by the governments in an official manner. Yuma and Coconino counties have flags used rather unofficially; in previous years Yuma County used its flag at all facilities, however it is only flown at the main library today. It is possible that Coconino County’s flag is only used at the city hall of its county seat Flagstaff, and there is also Cochise County which adopted a flag only to use at its centennial.

Daniel Rentería, 29 July 2024