Gateway Arch's National Park Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Gateway Arch National Park (Missouri) became a National Park on February 22, 2018. Card Blueprints uses February 22 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 2018 is unused.

Coordinate: the 3 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/3-of-diamonds.

Parks that share February 22

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

Other parks on the 3 of Diamonds

• Gates of the Arctic — 3 of Diamonds
• Glacier Bay — 3 of Diamonds
• Katmai — 3 of Diamonds
• Kenai Fjords — 3 of Diamonds
• Kobuk Valley — 3 of Diamonds
• Lake Clark — 3 of Diamonds
• Wrangell–St. Elias — 3 of Diamonds

Gateway Arch on the record

Gateway Arch National Park is a national park of the United States located in St. Louis, Missouri, near the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In its initial form as a national memorial, it was established in 1935 to commemorate: the Louisiana Purchase and subsequent westward movement of American explorers and pioneers; the first civil government west of the Mississippi River; and the debate over slavery raised by the Dred Scott case. The national park consists of the Gateway Arch, a steel catenary arch that has become the definitive icon of St. Louis; a park along the Mississippi River on the site of the earliest buildings of the city; the Old Courthouse, a former state and federal courthouse where the Dred Scott case originated; and the 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m2) museum at the Gateway Arch. It is the smallest national park in the United States at 192.83 acres (78.04 ha), less than 2% the size of the next-smallest, Hot Springs National Park. The immediate surroundings of the Gateway Arch were initially designated the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial by secretarial order on December 21, 1935. The Gateway Arch was completed on October 28, 1965. The park is maintained by the National Park Service (NPS). The area surrounding the arch was redesignated as the Gateway Arch National Park in 2018. This change has been controversial due to the nature of the site (national parks typically include conserved natural landscapes and significant opportunities for nature recreation, whereas sites that have primarily historical and architectural significance are usually given other NPS designations). Several publications noted that the addition of Gateway Arch as a national park eroded the significance associated with the "national park" designation, and some suggested that the change was made in order to promote tourism rather than to conserve a nature area.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Gateway Arch 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 Gateway Arch use?

February 22, 2018 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Gateway Arch's National Park birth card?

The 3 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 Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (1935-12-21) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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