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Monmouth County, New Jersey (U.S.)

image by Masao Okazaki, 13 November 2023

Description of the flag
Seal (2017)
Variant depiction of flag and seal
Earlier flag

- indicates flag is known.
- indicates it is reported that there is no known flag.

Municipal flags in Monmouth County:

See also:

Description of the flag

The new Monmouth County flag has the county seal on a white background.
Michael Del Duca, 25 June 2019

The flag can be seen in use at:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php

However, the new seal and the "previous" flag are used by the county itself in 2023:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php

Masao Okazaki, 13 November 2023

Seal (2017)

image located by Masao Okazaki, 13 November 2023

The Monmouth County seal was authorized as indicated by the following excerpt from the minutes of the governing body on May 9, 1798:
"Ordered By Said Board that Jacob Holms get a Seal made the Sise to be the Bigness of half a Dollar & The Device to be the Plough and the letters Monmouth on The face.... James R. English Clerk"

The use of the image of a plough on seals was quite common in 18th Century New Jersey. Ploughs can be found on the Surrogate's Seal, the Great Seal of the State of New Jersey and various coins minted in early America.
Source: "The County Seal": https://www.visitmonmouth.com/page.aspx?Id=262

The county seal dates from 2017
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10155343978507193&set=a.223550853137334
https://www.visitmonmouth.com/AgencyImages/13/Official-Monmouth-County-Seal-Color.jpg
Masao Okazaki, 13 November 2023

The above is taken from "This is Monmouth County, New Jersey," a publication of the Board of County Commissioners and authored by William L. Ulrich, the Clerk of the Board. It is dated March 1, 1973, meaning it’s about the oldest flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 14 November 2023

Variant depiction of flag and seal

images located by Michael Del Duca, 25 June 2019

Earlier flag

image located by Jens Pattke, 6 May 2001

The Monmouth County flag was adopted on 1 February 1956.

Source: David Martucci: "The flags of New Jersey" in Flag Bulletin X:2-3 (from III.ICV); Flag Research Center Winchester
Jens Pattke, 6 May 2001

According to The history of the Monmouth County flag, the center design (which, by the way, is not a representation of the official County Seal) emblem was designed especially for the flag. (And the motto on the flag is not the county motto either).
Ned Smith, 24 November 2005

image located by Paul Bassinson, 19 May 2021

Image of a variant of the flag of Monmouth County, New Jersey as previously used obtained from https://www.facebook.com/MonmouthCountySheriffsOffice/photos/a.159499954177040/1128138197313206
Paul Bassinson, 19 May 2021

The situation here is confusing. My guess is that the flag standing in the County Council Hall (the flag above) is still the official county flag. The 2017 seal is just the seal. The flag used by Little Silver (at top of this page) is possibly an unofficial flag that was easily printed with a seal.

I don't know about the county seal and flag posted by Michael Del Duca. There is no source, and it was posted in 2019, 2 years after the "new" seal appeared on the county's Facebook page.
Masao Okazaki, 14 November 2023