State fair

List of state fairs

United States

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State fair police departments

Several state fairs maintain their own police departments, including:

• California Exposition and State Fair Police
• Iowa State Fair Police
• Kentucky State Fair Board Police Department
• Minnesota State Fair Police Department
• Wisconsin State Fair Park Police Department

Provincial exhibitions in Canada

A few annual exhibitions in the summer in Canada are similar to state fairs in the United States:

Awards

State and county fairs are famous for a variety of competitions that award ribbons. Awards are generally given according to the following scale:

• First place – blue ribbon
• Second place – red ribbon
• Third place – white ribbon
• Fourth place – yellow ribbon
• Fifth place – green ribbon
• Sixth place – orange ribbon
• Seventh place – purple ribbon
• Eighth place – brown ribbon

Attendance

As of 2019, the largest attendance at a state fair in the US is in Texas with the fair having attracted 2,514,637 visitors. Even though it is longer than an average state fair, any advantage is negated by the size of the physical state since those days would be required for the states citizens to have equal opportunity to attend.

The largest average per day attendance is at the Minnesota State Fair averaging just under 200,000 people per day.

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