C.U.F. (or Clifton Heights, University Heights, and Fairview)

So back in the day, before everybody had a car and had to walk everywhere, the neighborhoods were smaller. These neighborhoods (Clifton Heights, University Heights, and Fairvew) are small enough that the city groups them together as C.U.F in a way that allows them to retain their own identities. I also think they are grouped together because only Clifton Heights has a business district. See a map of C.U.F. below.

Below is a map of that area subdivided into the three neighborhoods

Since C.U.F. is unique in its counting as one neighborhood, while still giving recognition to the original 3 neighborhoods, it made me think of the flag of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack. Not only is it a cool looking flag, but how it came about it really cool too, so quick history lesson.

This is the flag of England, the cross of St. George.

This is the flag of Scotland, a separate kingdom at many points of history and immediately before 1603. It is the cross of St. Andrew.

So when king James VI inherited both the throne of England and Scotland, he combined the kingdoms and he combined the flags. The flag was thus named the Union Flag, representing a union of two nations, A jack is a small flag flown from the bow of a ship. The monarch would use the flag in this manner so it became commonly known as the Union Jack.

This is the flag that would have flown over the American colonies before independence.

Later, in 1801, they decided to give recognition to Northern Ireland, another country in the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland's flag is below. It is called the Cross of St. Patrick

Adding that in gives us the flag we know and love today.

Interestingly, the flag fails to recognize the fourth country in the U.K., Wales. Wales flag is below.

Some have suggested this

But let's get back to C.U.F. I took this idea and reversed engineered this one. That's cheating I know, but I like the idea of a flag that is a combination of other flags.

So here is the flag for Clifton Heights.

Clifton Heights was heavily settled by Germans, who influenced the early culture there. In fact, Clifton Heights has a mural that says Wilkommen-Clifton Heights.

So the colors of the Clifton Heights flag come from the German flag. The red chevron represents the hill that defines the neighborhood.

Fairview is right next door, and also known for its German heritage. The Fairview German school used to be in the neighborhood before it moved to Clifton. (Although, looking at the map above, it seems to me that by those boundaries, the school was actually in Clifton Heights, being east of Ravine. Maybe a long time resident of the area could clarify for me). So here is Fairview's flag.

Again, the colors are from the German flag. The inverted yellow chevron forms a V for the great View in FairView. (I'm forcing it I know)

Finally, University Heights, as its name suggests, closely identifies itself with the University of Cincinnati. The colors of U.C. are red, black, and white. So putting these colors on a simple cross gives University Height's flag.

Now that the three neighborhoods are joined into one C.U.F. the three flags get combined. We take the black background and white cross from the University Heights flag. We take the red chevron from the Clifton Heights flag and interlock it with the yellow inverted chevron from the Fairview flag. You get the flag below.

FLAG 1

A different flag possibility, with a different reverse engineering could be.

Clifton Heights

Fairview

University Heights

And the Grand Union flag of C.U.F.

FLAG 2

FLAG 1's color contrast a bit better I think.

Then I wanted to try out the Uptown colors on this flag idea. Remember, the pan-Uptown colors come from this logo.

So using these colors you could get...

Clifton Heights

Fairview

University Heights.

And merging them all into a CUF Union gives you the third flag

FLAG 3

Or you could do flags that emphasized the orange over the blue.

Clifton Heights

Fairview

University Heights

And the orange emphasizing Union CUF flag.

FLAG 4

Finally, I already made Mt. Auburn flags that focused on the Uptown Blue. I made a suggestion in the Corryville post that they might want to emphasize the Uptown Orange to give themselves some distinction. Well maybe CUF would want to emphasize the Uptown Green for the same reasons. So the last group of flags is

Clifton Heights.