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High Point, North Carolina (U.S.)

Guilford, Randolph, Davidson and Forsyth Counties

image by Valentin Poposki, 11 November 2023

Description of the flag
Seal
Previous flag

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Description of the flag

The City of High Point NC, has a new flag since this August [2023].

The High Point flag ties into the rest of the brand identity system and represents forward progress, connection and collaboration. It signifies that High Point is the point where people come together and make creative things happen.

High Point City Flag
The navy blue represents our entire city.

The white represents the path to which all of our residents,
visitors and business organizations travel to the heart of our city.

The sky blue circle signifies that High Point is the "point" at
which people come together to make creative things happen.

https://www.highpointnc.gov/2798/City-Flag
https://issuu.com/cityofhighpoint/docs/ihp_july_2023_-_pages/s/29213659
Valentin Poposki, 11 November 2023

The flag is dated July 24, 2023 at https://www.highpointnc.gov/2798/City-Flag
Masao Okazaki, 23 November 2023

The city Marketing Manager, Ryan Fergusen, has confirmed that the new flag (posted by Vanya Poposki) and logo were adopted on May 1, 2023.
Masao Okazaki, 29 November 2023

Linked on the flag page there’s also a large-size original image at https://www.highpointnc.gov/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=22177 unusually showing the reverse (i.e., the hoist is at the viewer’s right hand). The specs *seem* to be: (12+5+3+14+3+5+12):(11+5+20+5+55) = (10+7+10):48 = 9:16, although the ratio shown on the flag photo at https://www.highpointnc.gov/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=22181 seems less oblong; it could be a (very detailed) synthetic image, not an actual photo.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 9 June 2024

Seal

image located by Paul Bassinson, 17 October 2019

Source: https://www.highpointnc.gov
Paul Bassinson, 17 October 2019

Previous flag

image by Masao Okazaki, 25 November 2023

based on photo located by Valentin Poposki, 4 July 2012

I found a description of the city flag of the City of High Point, North Carolina, USA.

"According to Harold Craven, who was mayor pro tem in 1969, he suggested to Council that a new city seal be designed. Council agreed and launched a citywide contest. An employee of Bennett Advertising submitted the winning design. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:High_Point_Seal.jpg for image of seal.

According to the February 4, 1969, HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE, this description of the new city flag was given to the City Council that morning.

"In its colors, the flag begins with red, white and blue of the national standard; to them are added gold, for commerce, and brown, for one of the city's major industries. In the central design, a circle of carved wood, symbolizing the furniture industry, is intertwined with a red ribbon symbolizing textiles. Thus the city's two major industries, historically, are symbolically represented, but while they provide the framework for the city's growth, they are not the core of the city's being. Within them burns a blue flame, which represents the life of the spirit - religion, and the city's churches; knowledge, and the College, the city's schools, its libraries and other repositories of knowledge; and ------------------- (A portion of the clipping is missing. The clipping is in a scrapbook maintained in the N. C. Collection at the High Point Public Library.)

"Around this central design is a symbolic representation of the Old Plank Road, around which first a town and then a city grew; the planks on the flag are arranged in a sunburst, radiating power. In its colors and symbols, this flag carries on the classic tradition; in its design it is contemporary without being extreme; it represents both history and hopes; it is essentially timeless."
- from city website: www.high-point.net/150th/history.cfm.

Also, on the left is presented, as I read somewhere, proposed flag for 150 Anniversary celebration this year.
Valentin Poposki, 4 January 2009