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![[Flag of Oregon City, Oregon]](../images/u/us-ororc.jpg)
image located by Dave Fowler, 16 March 2026
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Article has a picture of two versions of the Oregon City flag
Oregon City’s flag flies nowhere. A redesign aims to change that
The Oregonian
March 16, 2026
https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2026/03/oregon-citys-flag-flies-nowhere-a-redesign-aims-to-change-that.html (Paywalled)
You’d be forgiven for not knowing the city even had one. The current flag, adopted in 1989, isn’t flown at City Hall and doesn’t appear anywhere on the city’s website. The 1989 flag’s design covers a lot of ground. Too much ground, critics say. The flag features the city seal on a blue backdrop surrounded by several yellow stars. The seal — which the city is also redesigning — contains a hodgepodge of elements: a beaver, an oxen-drawn covered wagon, a schooner against a setting sun, an Indigenous woman holding a baby, a salmon, Willamette Falls, an eagle, and the face of town founder.
Circling all that is the city name, the year Oregon City was incorporated (1844), the phrase “end of the Oregon Trail,” and a Latin motto that includes the phrase “first mother city.” Oregon City, after all, was the first city incorporated west of the Rocky Mountains.
Jarrod Lyman, an Oregon City spokesperson, called the current flag “really busy.” William Gifford, who owns a flag company in Oregon City, was more blunt. “It’s a horrible design, not to put too fine a point on it,” he said.
Dave Fowler, 16 March 2026
![[Municipal seal]](../images/u/us-ororc).gif)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 22 November 2019
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https://www.orcity.org/
Paul Bassinson, 22 November 2019
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