Crater Lake's National Park Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

How the card is assigned

Crater Lake National Park (Oregon) became a National Park on May 22, 1902. Card Blueprints uses May 22 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1902 is unused.

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

Parks that share May 22

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

Other parks on the 10 of Clubs

• Badlands — 10 of Clubs
• Theodore Roosevelt — 10 of Clubs
• Congaree — 10 of Clubs

Crater Lake on the record

Crater Lake National Park is a national park of the United States located in southern Oregon. Established in 1902, Crater Lake is the fifth-oldest national park in the United States and the only national park in Oregon. The park protects the flanks and caldera of Crater Lake, a remnant of Mount Mazama, a destroyed volcano, and the surrounding hills and forests. The lake is 1,949 feet (594 m) deep at its deepest point, which makes it the deepest lake in the United States, the second-deepest in North America and the tenth-deepest in the world. Crater Lake is often referred to as the seventh-deepest lake in the world, but this former listing excludes the approximately 3,000-foot (910 m) depth of subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which resides under nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 m) of ice, and the recent report of a 2,740-foot (840 m) maximum depth for Lake O'Higgins/San Martin, located on the border of Chile and Argentina. However, when comparing its average depth of 1,148 feet (350 m) to the average depth of other deep lakes, Crater Lake becomes the deepest in the Western Hemisphere and the third-deepest in the world. The impressive average depth of this volcanic lake is due to the nearly symmetrical 4,000-foot-deep (1,200 m) caldera formed 7,700 years ago (about 8 kya) during the violent climactic eruptions and subsequent collapse of Mount Mazama and the relatively moist climate that is typical of the crest of the Cascade Range. The caldera rim ranges in elevation from 7,000 to 8,000 feet (2,100 to 2,400 m). The United States Geological Survey benchmark elevation of the lake surface is 6,178 feet (1,883 m). The national park encompasses 183,224 acres (74,148 ha; 286.288 sq mi; 741.48 km2). Crater Lake has no streams flowing into or out of it. All water that enters the lake is eventually lost from evaporation or subsurface seepage.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Crater Lake 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 Crater Lake use?

May 22, 1902 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Crater Lake'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. This park’s Wikipedia National Park date is the first-unit date used here; any later rename or expansion is noted when Wikipedia or NPS records it.

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