Sweetwater, Texas (U.S.)

Nolan County

Last modified: 2020-05-30 by rick wyatt
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image by Masao Okazaki, 22 July 2019

• Description of the flag
• Seal

See also:

• Nolan County
• Municipal Flags of Texas (index page)
• County Flags of Texas (index page)
• Texas
• United States of America

Description of the flag

The city held a flag contest and chose this as the winner.
http://www.sweetwaterreporter.com/content/winning-flag-design-unfurled

Thursday, April 12, 2018
The winning municipal flag design was revealed at this week’s regular City Commission meeting. The winning entry was submitted by Trey Jimenez, an 8th grade student at Sweetwater Middle School. He is an Art III student. He is the son of Junior and Becky Jimenez, brother to Sweetwater HS grad Ashleigh Jimenez. Jimenez explains his design this way:

"The horizontal bar at the bottom half of the flag is a representation of the general beginning of Sweetwater’s prosperity when the tracks of The Texas and Pacific Railway reached Sweetwater in 1881. The single star at the top of the flag represents the idea of the popular sovereignty. When put into words it means that the local government is governed by the will of the people of Sweetwater. The star shows as well that the people of Sweetwater are united as one and are undivided when confronting the issues that face the City. The curved line beneath the singular star represents the snake, of course, which annually generates revenue and prosperity for the City of Sweetwater since the founding of the Rattlesnake Roundup in 1958."

The attached image is the final version of the flag, which is posted on the city's website: http://www.cityofsweetwatertx.com

Masao Okazaki, 22 July 2019

The seal

image located by Paul Bassinson, 23 January 2020

Source: http://www.cityofsweetwatertx.com/   
Paul Bassinson, 23 January 2020