American Flag Hydrant - Ardmore, OK - Painted Hydrants on Waymarking.com

Not long ago, this was a silver hydrant with an orange cap. In 2019, Create Ardmore and the Ardmore Fire Department worked together on a beautification effort in which fire hydrants in the downtown Cultural Arts District -- a comparatively small number compared to the over 1600 hydrants that the Ardmore FD has to maintain throughout the area! -- would be given the glamour treatment. As the Ardmore FD requires that the hydrants have a specific color cap -- red, orange, green or blue -- to indicate how much water pressure each tank has behind it, they did the priming work, leaving local volunteers to use their imaginations and minimal guidelines in the effort.

This hydrant probably had to be approved to have a red cap instead of the previous orange one before the artist got started, and frankly, it's probably a good thing that the paint scheme isn't anatomically correct: Dogs may come by to do what they do, and that probably wouldn't fall in line with respecting the flag! The lower standpipe is white, while the upper section below the bonnet is blue, but with far less than fifty white stars. Alternating red and white strips circle the hydrant, and the artist was careful to paint the chains white.

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