Kansas Flag Status — Is the Flag at Half-Staff Today?
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Who lowers the flag in Kansas
In Kansas, flags are lowered by the Governor and announced through the Governor’s newsroom. Kansas orders frequently specify particular buildings or a particular county rather than the whole state, so the text is worth reading closely: a Kansas notice is not automatically a statewide lowering.
The flag of Kansas
A dark blue field bears the state seal: a settler’s farm, a steamboat, a wagon train, buffalo, and 34 stars representing Kansas as the 34th state, with the motto “Ad astra per aspera” above.
Kansas on the American flag
Kansas’s star joined the national flag on July 4, 1861 — the Fourth of July after admission, as the Flag Act of 1818 provides.
Sunrise and sunset in Topeka
The flag is raised at sunrise and lowered at sunset. Today at the state capital:
How Kansas became a state
After years of bloody clashes between pro- and anti-slavery settlers — “Bleeding Kansas” — the territory entered the Union as a free state on January 29, 1861, just weeks before the Civil War began. It became a critical part of the Underground Railroad and later, in 1954, the namesake of the Brown v. Board of Education school-desegregation case.
Admitted January 29, 1861 — the 34th state.
Kansas at a glance
Did you know
- Kansas is the nation’s top producer of wheat.
- The geographic center of the contiguous 48 states is in Smith County.
- Wichita is known as the “Air Capital of the World.”
- Daniel Halladay’s self-governing windmill, patented in 1854, helped open the dry Western plains to settlement.
Born or raised here: Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President; raised in Abilene) · Amelia Earhart (aviator; Atchison) · William Allen White (journalist; Emporia) · Walter Chrysler (auto maker; raised in Ellis) · Buster Keaton (filmmaker; Piqua)
Kansas in the American Record
Moments from the daily edition that happened in Kansas.
Official source
Orders are announced by the Governor’s office.
Common questions.
Is the flag at half-staff in Kansas today?+
The status above answers that for today. A national half-staff order applies in Kansas as it does everywhere else; the Governor can also lower flags within the state independently.
Who orders flags to half-staff in Kansas?+
In Kansas, flags are lowered by the Governor and announced through the Governor’s newsroom. Kansas orders frequently specify particular buildings or a particular county rather than the whole state, so the text is worth reading closely: a Kansas notice is not automatically a statewide lowering.
Does a county order mean the whole of Kansas lowers its flags?+
No. A county or single-facility order (the State Capitol, for instance) applies only where it says it does. This page shows those separately from the statewide status precisely so the two are never confused — if the status above reads full-staff, Kansas has no statewide order in effect regardless of any local one.
When should the flag be raised and lowered in Kansas?+
The flag flies from sunrise to sunset. Today at the state capital, Topeka, those times are shown above. On the final day of a half-staff order that runs "until sunset", the flag returns to full height at the local sunset — which is why the West Coast stays lowered a few hours after the East.
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