Hot Springs's National Park Birth Card: The 6 of Spades

How the card is assigned

Hot Springs National Park (Arkansas) became a National Park on March 4, 1921. Card Blueprints uses March 4 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1921 is unused.

Coordinate: the 6 of Spades. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/6-of-spades.

Parks that share March 4

• Kings Canyon — March 4, 1940

Other parks on the 6 of Spades

• Kings Canyon — 6 of Spades

Hot Springs on the record

Hot Springs National Park is a national park of the United States in central Garland County, Arkansas, adjacent to the city of Hot Springs. Hot Springs Reservation was initially created by an act of the United States Congress on April 20, 1832, to be preserved for future recreation. Established before the concept of a national park existed, it was the first time that land had been set aside by the federal government to preserve its use as an area for recreation. Part of the natural area is old-growth forest and recognized by the Old-Growth Forest Network. The hot spring water has been popularly believed for centuries to possess medicinal properties, and was a subject of legend among several Native American tribes. Following federal protection in 1832, the city developed into a successful spa town. Incorporated January 10, 1852, the city was known in the early 20th century as the home to Major League Baseball spring training, illegal gambling, speakeasies during the Prohibition era, and gangsters such as Al Capone, horse racing at Oaklawn Park, the Army and Navy Hospital, and 42nd President Bill Clinton. The area was established as a national park on March 4, 1921. Until the redesignation of Jefferson National Expansion Memorial as Gateway Arch National Park in 2018, Hot Springs was the smallest national park by area in the United States. Since Hot Springs National Park is the oldest park maintained by the National Park Service, it was the first to receive its own US quarter in April 2010 as part of the America the Beautiful Quarters coin series. The hot springs flow from the western slope of Hot Springs Mountain, part of the Ouachita Mountain range. In the park, the hot springs have not been preserved in their unaltered state as natural surface phenomena.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Hot Springs 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 Hot Springs use?

March 4, 1921 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Hot Springs's National Park birth card?

The 6 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 Hot Springs Reservation (1832-04-20) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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