^{This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website}

Cedar City, Utah (U.S.)

Iron County

image by Masao Okazaki, 9 March 2024
based on photo, and on image provided by Sadie Hinck, 3 January 2024

Description of the flag
Previous flag
Flag redesign

See also:

Description of the Flag

A call for a flag redesign was posted in August 2023. All of the current information for the new and current Cedar City flag can be found at https://www.cedarcity.org/2444/City-Flag.

The flag incorporates elements of the Festival City USA flag - the pennant flags found in the current city logo in addition to the official city colors. The pennants mimic those found in the first festival, the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The pennant shape also has a similar shape to lightning bolts giving a nod to Southern Utah University and the Thunderbird mascot. The sharp points at the bottom of the flag replicate the beautiful Cedar City mountains. The final shape in the upper left of the flag is a 5-point star with each point representing a band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah.
Sadie Hinck, 3 January 2024

The flag has been revealed to the city council.
https://www.cedarcityutah.com
https://www.facebook.com/photo
https://www.facebook.com/photo
Masao Okazaki, 19 February 2024

Previous flags

image by Eugene Ipavec, 15 June 2009

City of Cedar City, Utah, has no official flag, but it uses an unofficial flag which contains city logo on a white background. Here is what I received from Larry Baker, Public Relations, Cedar City: "Although we do not have an official City flag, we have used one with one of our two versions of the Cedar City logo on it, in a parade. The logo was adopted in 2003."

About the city:
"Cedar City is a city in Iron County, Utah, United States, 250 miles (400 km) south of Salt Lake City on Interstate 15. It is the home of Southern Utah University, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Neil Simon Theatre Festival, the Utah Summer Games, and other events. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 20,527. In 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated Cedar City's population to be 27,823.

Cedar City was originally settled in late 1851 by Mormon pioneers originating from Parowan, Utah, who were sent to build an iron works. The site, known as "Fort Cedar" or "Cedar City," was equidistant from vast iron deposits 10 miles (16 km) west and coal resources 10 miles (16 km) up Cedar Canyon, but was named after the abundant local trees (which are actually Junipers instead of Cedar). Two companies of men led by Henry Lunt reached the fort site in a blizzard on 11 Nov. 1851, making that date the official founding. In 1855, a new site, closer to the iron works and out of the flood plain of Coal Creek, was established at the suggestion of Brigham Young; present day Cedar City is located at this site.

The iron works closed in 1858, though iron mining continued in the area until the 1980s. The completion of a railroad connection to Cedar City in 1923 established the area as a tourism gateway to nearby Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, and Grand Canyon National Park, in addition to Cedar Breaks National Monument. Cedar City continues to be a center of tourism, commercial development, education and the arts in southwestern Utah." - from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_City,_Utah.

Valentin Poposki, 2 June 2009

image by Masao Okazaki, 17 August 2023
based on photo

In the announcement of a redesign effort for the city flag in August 2023, the current flag was shown, with no information about it.
Current flag: https://cedarcity.org/DocumentCenter
Masao Okazaki, 17 August 2023