Death Valley's National Park Birth Card: The 4 of Hearts

How the card is assigned

Death Valley National Park (California, Nevada) became a National Park on October 31, 1994. Card Blueprints uses October 31 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1994 is unused.

Coordinate: the 4 of Hearts. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/4-of-hearts.

Parks that share October 31

• American Samoa — October 31, 1988
• Joshua Tree — October 31, 1994

Other parks on the 4 of Hearts

• American Samoa — 4 of Hearts
• Joshua Tree — 4 of Hearts
• New River Gorge — 4 of Hearts

Death Valley on the record

Death Valley National Park is a national park of the United States that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley and most of Saline Valley. The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons and mountains. Death Valley is the largest national park in the contiguous United States, as well as the hottest, driest and lowest of all the national parks in the United States. It contains Badwater Basin, the second-lowest point in the Western Hemisphere and lowest in North America at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. More than 93% of the park is a designated wilderness area. The park is home to many species of plants and animals which have adapted to the harsh desert environment including creosote bush, Joshua tree, bighorn sheep, coyote, and the endangered Death Valley pupfish, a survivor from much wetter times. UNESCO included Death Valley as the principal feature of its Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve in 1984. A series of Native American groups inhabited the area from as early as 7000 BC, most recently the Timbisha around 1000 AD who migrated between winter camps in the valleys and summer grounds in the mountains. A group of European-Americans, lost in the valley in 1849 while looking for a shortcut to the gold fields of California, gave this valley its grim name, even though only one of their group died there. Several short-lived boom towns sprang up during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to mine gold and silver. The only long-term profitable ore to be mined was borax, which was transported out of the valley with twenty-mule teams.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Death Valley 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 Death Valley use?

October 31, 1994 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Death Valley's National Park birth card?

The 4 of Hearts. 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 Death Valley National Monument (1933-02-11) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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