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The first state horse was designated in Vermont in 1961. The most recent state horse designations occurred in 2024 when Mississippi designated the American Quarter Horse as its state horse and in 2022 when Oklahoma declared the American Quarter Horse as its state horse. There have been proposals to designate a state horse in Oregon as well as ...
U.S. states, districts, and territories have representative symbols that are recognized by their state legislatures, territorial legislatures, or tradition.Some, such as flags, seals, and birds have been created or chosen by all U.S. polities, while others, such as state crustaceans, state mushrooms, and state toys have been chosen by only a few.
The state tree is the sugar maple (Acer saccharum), effective in 1949. The sugar maple is the source of maple syrup, Vermont's most famous export. The state mushroom is the bear's head tooth fungus (Hericium americanum), effective in 2024. [5] The Morgan horse became the state mammal in 1961.
The Hagerman horse (Equus simplicidens originally described as Plesippus shoshonensis) was declared the official state fossil of Idaho by the 1988 Legislature. A 3.5 million year old fossil bed near Hagerman , discovered in the 1920s, has yielded more than 30 complete horse skeletons and is said to be the "best known Pleistocene-epoch fossil ...
The following is a list of symbols of the U.S. state of Texas. Official designations and symbols. Type ... American Quarter Horse [1] 2009 Other official designations
State symbols. Type Symbol Adopted Image Amphibian: American bullfrog Lithobates catesbeiana: ... Horse: Missouri Fox Trotter Equus ferus caballus: 2002 [1] [19] Insect:
It served as the state's only emblem for 14 years until the adoption of the state flag in 1885. Enacted by law in 2013, the newest symbols of North Carolina are the state art medium, clay ; the state fossil, the megalodon teeth ; the state frog, the Pine Barrens tree frog ; the state marsupial, the Virginia opossum ; and the state salamander ...
State Resource Guides, from the Library of Congress; Tables with areas, populations, densities and more (in order of population) Tables with areas, populations, densities and more (alphabetical) State and Territorial Governments on USA.gov; StateMaster – statistical database for U.S. states; State Symbols USA