West Branch, Michigan (U.S.)

Ogemaw County

Last modified: 2022-08-13 by rick wyatt
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image by Masao Okazaki, 24 July 2022

• Description of the flag
• Seal

See also:

• Ogemaw County
• County and Municipal flags of Michigan
• Michigan
• United States of America

The flag

The flag of the City of West Branch, Michigan, a white flag charged with a city emblem:
www.flickr.com/photos/michigancommunities/5016861173/
www.flickr.com/photos/michigancommunities/5016861935/
The emblem can be seen in black and white at the bottom of the city website, www.westbranch.com. It is an unusually shaped shield, with a person's head in chief separated from the rest by a bar bearing the name "WEST BRANCH", and the rest divided vaguely per bend, with the charges seeming to be a tree stump (brown on green) and a shining bible and cross (cross red, rays yellow, field white).

Jonathan Dixon, 7 October 2010

This flag can be seen on photos from conferences of the Michigan Municipal League.
2014: https://www.flickr.com/photos/michigancommunities/15363770818/
2011: hhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/michigancommunities/6241391534/

The flag holds a city seal, of which I found only a small image on a LinkedIn account: https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/

The seal includes a drawing of Chief Ogemaw, for whom the county is named.
https://www.ocmi.us/wp-content/uploads/Chief-Ogemaw-512-512.jpg

The flag is still being used, as shown on this Mayor and City council page: http://www.westbranch.com/government/mayor_and_city_council/index.php

Masao Okazaki, 24 July 2022

Seal

image located by Masao Okazaki, 24 July 2022