The County Flags of Texas

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FALLS COUNTY


Named for the Brazos River falls
County Seat: Marlin   Area: 770 square miles   Pop. (2000): 18,576

The flag of Falls County was designed in the spring of 1984 by Joydelle G. Wolfram. Following adoption by the Commissioners' Court, it was dedicated on 11 November the same year.

The flag is blue with a large white Lone Star in the center of two concentric white rings near the hoist. Surrounding the Lone Star are 37 smaller gold stars, representing the original counties of Texas created during the era of independence. The inner ring displays 115 red stars for the counties created from 1846 to 1860. The outer ring has 91 blue stars for the counties created between 1861 and 1900 and 11 green stars for those created during the twentieth century. The name of the county appears on the fly above a white-bordered red star and the date of the county's creation, 1850.

On 18 February 1985 the Texas legislature adopted the design as the "official county flag for the Texas sesquicentennial," the 150th anniversary celebration of Texas Independence. It was thereby made available to any of Texas' 254 counties which needed only insert their own name and creation date, and change the star to the appropriate color for that date. Use of the flag was encouraged during the mid-1980s and the flag was known to have been accepted by Brazoria, Brazos, Denton, El Paso, Hidalgo, Liberty and Milam Counties in addition to Falls County. However, as with many flags designed for celebratory use, excepting in counties that adopted it as a permanent symbol, it has fallen out of use.