Badlands's National Park Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

How the card is assigned

Badlands National Park (South Dakota) became a National Park on November 10, 1978. Card Blueprints uses November 10 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1978 is unused.

Coordinate: the 10 of Clubs. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/10-of-clubs.

Parks that share November 10

• Theodore Roosevelt — November 10, 1978
• Congaree — November 10, 2003

Other parks on the 10 of Clubs

• Crater Lake — 10 of Clubs
• Theodore Roosevelt — 10 of Clubs
• Congaree — 10 of Clubs

Badlands on the record

Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča) is a national park of the United States in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km2) of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles, along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The National Park Service manages the park, with the South Unit being co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe. Located within the White River drainage, the Badlands Wilderness protects 64,144 acres (100.2 sq mi; 259.6 km2) of the park's North Unit as a designated wilderness area, and is one site where the black-footed ferret, one of the most endangered mammals in the world, was reintroduced to the wild. The South Unit, or Stronghold District, includes sites of 1890s Ghost Dances, a former United States Air Force bomb and gunnery range, and Red Shirt Table, the park's highest point at 3,340 feet (1,020 m). Authorized as Badlands National Monument on March 4, 1929, it was not established until January 25, 1939. Badlands was redesignated a national park on November 10, 1978. Under the Mission 66 plan, the Ben Reifel Visitor Center was constructed for the monument in 1957–58. The park also administers the nearby Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. The movies Dances with Wolves (1990) and Thunderheart (1992) were partially filmed in Badlands National Park. This national park was originally a reservation of the Oglala Sioux Indians and spans the southern unit of the park. The area around Stronghold Table was originally Sioux territory, and is revered as a ceremonial sacred site rather than a place to live.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Badlands National Park (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article. National Park establishment dates come from the Wikipedia list column and NPS Park Anniversaries, not from this article.

FAQ

What date does Badlands use?

November 10, 1978 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Badlands's National Park birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the park.

Where do the dates come from?

Primary: Wikipedia List of national parks of the United States, Date established as park. Footnotes: NPS Park Anniversaries. NPS Park Anniversaries lists Badlands National Monument (1939-01-25) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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