Big Bend's National Park Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Big Bend National Park (Texas) became a National Park on June 12, 1944. Card Blueprints uses June 12 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1944 is unused.

Coordinate: the 5 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/5-of-diamonds.

Parks that share June 12

No other current National Park shares this month and day on the Wikipedia list.

Other parks on the 5 of Diamonds

• Carlsbad Caverns — 5 of Diamonds

Big Bend on the record

Big Bend National Park is a national park of the United States located in West Texas, bordering Mexico. The park has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States, and was named after a large bend in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo. The park protects more than 1,200 species of plants, more than 450 species of birds, 56 species of reptiles, and 75 species of mammals. The area has a rich cultural history, from archeological sites dating back nearly 10,000 years to more recent pioneers, ranchers, and miners. The Chisos Mountains are located in the park, and are the only mountain range in the United States to be fully contained within the boundary of a national park. Geological features in the park include sea fossils and dinosaur bones, as well as volcanic dikes. The park encompasses 801,163 acres (1,251.8 sq mi; 3,242.2 km2), entirely within Brewster County. For more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km), the Rio Grande/Río Bravo forms the boundary between Mexico and the United States, and Big Bend National Park administers approximately 118 miles (190 km) along that boundary. Because the Rio Grande serves as an international boundary, the park faces unusual constraints while administering and enforcing park rules, regulations, and policies. In accordance with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the park's territory extends only to the center of the deepest river channel as the river flowed in 1848. The rest of the channel and the land south of it lie within Mexican territory. The park is bordered by the protected areas of Cañón de Santa Elena and Maderas del Carmen in Mexico.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Big Bend 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 Big Bend use?

June 12, 1944 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Big Bend's National Park birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. 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 Big Bend National Park (authorized) (1935-06-20) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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