Channel Islands's National Park Birth Card: The 5 of Spades

How the card is assigned

Channel Islands National Park (California) became a National Park on March 5, 1980. Card Blueprints uses March 5 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1980 is unused.

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

Parks that share March 5

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

Other parks on the 5 of Spades

• Wind Cave — 5 of Spades
• Isle Royale — 5 of Spades

Channel Islands on the record

Channel Islands National Park is a national park of the United States, which consists of five of the eight Channel Islands off the coast of California. Although the islands are close to the shore of the densely populated state, they have been relatively undeveloped. The park covers 249,561 acres (1,009.94 km2; 389.939 mi2), of which 79,019 acres (319.78 km2; 123.467 mi2) are federal land. Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the eight, is divided between The Nature Conservancy and the National Park Service. The Nature Conservancy owns and manages the western 76 percent of the island, while the eastern 24 percent is owned and managed by the National Park Service. The islands are home to significant natural and cultural resources, resulting in several designations. Anacapa and Santa Barbara islands were made a national monument in 1938. All eight islands became a biosphere reserve under UNESCO in 1976. And five — Anacapa, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Miguel and Santa Rosa — were made constituent to the new national park on March 5, 1980. Of these, all but Anacapa are in Santa Barbara County, the latter being in Ventura County. Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary encompasses the waters six nautical miles around Channel Islands National Park.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Channel Islands 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 Channel Islands use?

March 5, 1980 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Channel Islands's National Park birth card?

The 5 of Spades. 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 Channel Islands National Monument (1938-04-26) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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