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![[flag of Edmond, Oklahoma]](../images/u/us-okedm2.gif)
image by Daniel Renterķa, 16 February 2024
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Edmond is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area in the central part of the state. The population was 68,315 at the 2000 census, making it the sixth largest city in the state of Oklahoma." - from Wikipedia
The flag is white with the city seal.
Valentin Poposki, 16 December 2008
The current flag was adopted in 1996 after the City of Edmond was forced to
remove the cross from all copies of the city seal.
DR
![[flag of Edmond, Oklahoma]](../images/u/us-okedm).gif)
image by Daniel Renterķa, 16 February 2024
The current seal without the cross was adopted unanimously by the city
council on May 28, 1996. This was done not in protest, but as "a form of
frustration" and as a reminder to the people what was there, then Councilman
Gary Moore said.
Daniel Renterķa, 16 February 2024
![[flag of Edmond, Oklahoma]](../images/u/us-okedm.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 29 March 2009
Based on an image at
Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
![[flag of Edmond, Oklahoma]](../images/u/us-okedm2).gif)
image by Daniel Renterķa, 16 February 2024
The former seal was adopted in 1965 after a contest. The seal displays a
cross, covered wagon, train and oil well, as well as the Old North Tower of the
University of Central Oklahoma.
This seal started its legal case when in
1992, then minister of the Channing Unitarian-Universalist Church Wayne Robinson
and the ACLU complained about the cross. In 1993, Norman attorney Micheal Salem
filed a suit for Robinson and four other Edmond residents. District Judge David
Russell of Oklahoma City ruled in favor of the city that year, however, his
decision was overturned by the 10th Circuit of the United States Court of
Appeals. The Supreme Court refused review on May 13, 1996 and then the city was
forced to change its seal.
Source:
https://www.oklahoman.com
No date of adoption is known, but it dates back to at least 1983 when the
mayor of The Village noted the flag of Edmond.
Daniel Renterķa, 16 February 2024