Collection: Utah Flags

100% American-made Utah State Flags

Almost 50 years after becoming a U.S. Territory, Utah became the forty-fifth state of the Union on January 4, 1886.

Today, Utah is the thirty-first most populous and thirteenth largest by area, but while it was still a territory, it was much larger than it is now. The local leaders wanted to name the state Deseret, and at the time the territory consisted of modern-day Utah, most of Arizona and Nevada, and parts of California, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon.

The Utah State Flag is now in its third official iteration, with the most recent flag adopted in February 2024.

• The original state flag, which was created by the Daughters of the American Revolution of Utah in 1903 displayed the Utah state seal in a white outline on a blue background.
  
  
• In 1912, after the commission of the USS Utah, a custom copy of the flag was ordered for presentation unto the battleship. When the flag was delivered, it was revealed that the manufacturer had taken the liberty of printing the seal in full-color and of adding a gold ring around the seal. The changes were widely accepted, and the new flag became official in 1913. This 1913 variation is now known as the official "Historic State Flag" of Utah.
  
  
• The current Utah flag (pictured here) features the state's namesake as its centerpiece - the beehive, representative of their community working culture. The blue band at the top represents the state's blue skies and lakes, the irregular white stripe in the center represents the state's mountains, while the red stripe is evocative of Utah's desert region.