DECEMBER 7, 2024 — In California, San Bernardino County’s Board of Supervisors approved a new county flag on Tuesday, December 3, marking the first update to the flag since 1984, according to a press release by the County government.
This is the third official flag in the county’s 171-year history.
The new design, created by the County Administrative Office Design Team with input from county leadership, incorporates several symbolic elements.
These include five stars representing the county’s five supervisorial districts, the county’s arrowhead logo, the year 1853 marking the county’s establishment, and a mountain silhouette symbolizing mountain communities. The flag also features gold and blue stripes to represent the county’s desert and valley regions.
Board of Supervisors Chairman Dawn Rowe commented on the design, stating, “I’m proud of our new county flag and I look forward to seeing it fly at county offices and proudly displayed in our meeting rooms. The stars and stripes celebrate the unique diversity of our geography and communities and the colors are bold and distinct in a way befitting the nation’s largest county.”
In addition to adopting the new flag, the board introduced a policy to prevent the creation of unofficial variants. The policy defines the flag’s design in detail and regulates its display alongside the U.S. and California state flags.
San Bernardino County’s first flag was introduced on April 23, 1973, and remained in use until August 27, 1984, when a second flag was adopted to commemorate the opening of the County Government Center. That design included a county logo, which continued to appear on the flag even after the logo was discontinued in the late 1990s.
The newly adopted flag will now replace this design across county facilities.
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