Arkansas State Flag

Date adopted: Feb 28, 2011

The flag of Arkansas, known as the Arkansas flag, boasts a distinctive design featuring a red field with a large blue-bordered white diamond at its center. Inside this diamond, there are twenty-nine five-pointed stars: twenty-five small white stars within the blue border and four larger blue stars within the white diamond. The word "ARKANSAS" appears in blue within the white lozenge, with one star above and three stars below, arranged so that the top and outer stars point upwards, while the inner star below points downwards. Willie K. Hocker, a member of the Arkansas Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, created this flag design in 1912. The flag was initially intended for the battleship USS Arkansas, with Hocker's design chosen from a contest held by the Pine Bluff Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It initially featured two stars above and two stars below the state name, representing the Confederate States alongside France, Spain, and the United States, but this was corrected in 1924, with the fourth star placed above "ARKANSAS." The flag's colors are Old Glory Red and Old Glory Blue, and it must be made in the United States per state law. In 2018, the original 1913 Arkansas state flag and a 1923 version underwent restoration.