Smith Island, Maryland (U.S.)

Somerset County

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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 January 2018

• Description of the flag

See also:

• Somerset County
• Tangier Island, Virginia, U.S.
• Cornwall
• County and Municipal flags of Maryland
• Maryland
• United States of America

Description of the flag

Smith Island in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay is light blue with a St. Pirrans Cross in the Canton. A black line 1/3 of up from bottom denotes the Maryland-Virginia state line and a green circle above the line represents the Island itself.
William M. Grimes-Wyatt, 12 March 1996

The specifications for this flag is 1:2 overall ratio, with the canton taking exactly one quadrant; the cross-arm's thickness is 10% of the flag’s height (i.e., 1/5th of the canton), the width of the stripe is 1/14th of it and the diameter of the disc is is 1/4th.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 January 2018