- For the city in Indiana, see Frankfort, Indiana.
The flag of Frankfort, Kentucky, is an indigo background with a light blue wave fimbriated in white. Separating the wave is an outlined golden five-pointed star on the fly. It was unanimously adopted by the Frankfort Board of Commissioners on December 9, 2024, and was designed by Amanda Cross.
Symbolism[]
The blue and gold stars represent the unity of historic Frankfort and modern Frankfort, as well as the new and old capital buildings from the previous flag. The S-bend represents the Kentucky River that flows through downtown, growing larger towards the hoist to symbolize Frankfort's bright future. The colors mirror the Kentucky state flag, just as the old flag did, with the intention that it will look at home flying side by side with it.
Flag colors[]
| Color | Color Name | HEX RGB |
|---|---|---|
| Indigo (Rainbow) | #292a69 | |
| White | #ffffff | |
| Celestial Blue | #4b8bc9 | |
| Marigold | #f0a91e |
Former flag[]
The former flag of Frankfort, Kentucky, is a white background with a yellow disk in the center. The disk is split with an S-shaped blue line, forming a yin-yang type figure. In the top half of the disk is the old State Capitol building and in the lower half is the new State Capitol building, both in a blue outline. Surrounding the disk is a wreath, in blue, open at the top. In the white space between the wreath and the disk appears FRANKFORT, arched over the top of the circle, and KENTUCKY over the bottom, all in blue capital letters. Midway between the two words are two five-pointed stars, gray on the hoist side and blue on the fly side. Centered below the wreath, midway between the wreath’s edge and the edge of the field, is the year 1786 in blue.
In the upper hoist corner is a white disk resembling a medallion, bordered by an outline of blue and yellow. In the center in yellow with a blue shading is a profile of Daniel Boone, facing the fly. In the upper fly corner is a similar medallion with a profile of a Boy Scout, in the same colors, facing the hoist.
The flag was adopted on September 14, 1959, and was designed by Col. George M. Chinn, Ermina Jett Darnell, Eudora Lindsay South, Margaret Brown Sullivan, and Allan M. Trout.
Symbolism[]
The flag was designed to be a reverse of the Kentucky state flag, with yellow and white on blue. The horizontal S-figure in the center of the flag represents the S-curve of the Kentucky River that divides the city. The old Capitol symbolizes the past; the new Capitol symbolizes the present. The blue wreath represents the famed bluegrass of Kentucky. The gray and blue stars signify, respectively, Frankfort’s status as a city in both the Confederacy and the United States. Frankfort was first settled in 1786.
The hoist medallion with Daniel Boone commemorates him as the discoverer in 1767 of “the fair land of Kentucky”, as he described it. The fly medallion recognizes that the first Boy Scout troop in the United States was formed in Frankfort in 1908.
2004 NAVA survey[]
It scored a total of 2.41 / 140th out of 150 on the 2004 NAVA City Flag Survey, behind Bridgeport, and ahead of Montpelier.
