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image by David Pawson, 2 July 2006
source:
http://hometown.aol.com/texascountyflags/elpaso.html
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Blue flag, with gold-bordered map of Texas colored as the Texas flag, with a gold star at the location of El Paso County, and the date 1850 written on the fly. El Paso County, Texas officially adopted it's first county flag design on December 11, 2006.
Bobby Perry, 14 July 2007
image by David Pawson, 2 July 2006
source: members.aol.com/_ht_a/txflags/texas.html
A Falls County type flag.
Named for El Paso del Norte, the northern pass
County Seat: El Paso Area: 1,014 square miles Pop. (2000): 679,622
Brazos County adopted the Official County Flag for the Sesquicentennial adopted
by the Texas legislature on 18 February 1985.
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 and its date of creation appear on the fly with
a white-bordered red star.
David Pawson, 2 July 2006