Katmai's National Park Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Katmai National Park (Alaska) became a National Park on December 2, 1980. Card Blueprints uses December 2 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1980 is unused.

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

December 2 Alaska cluster

Katmai is one of seven current Alaska National Parks established as parks on December 2, 1980 (ANILCA), with Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Kenai Fjords, Kobuk Valley, Lake Clark, Wrangell–St. Elias. Denali is not in this cluster: its National Park date remains February 26, 1917.

Parks that share December 2

• Gates of the Arctic — December 2, 1980
• Glacier Bay — December 2, 1980
• Kenai Fjords — December 2, 1980
• Kobuk Valley — December 2, 1980
• Lake Clark — December 2, 1980
• Wrangell–St. Elias — December 2, 1980

Other parks on the 3 of Diamonds

• Gates of the Arctic — 3 of Diamonds
• Glacier Bay — 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 — 3 of Diamonds

Katmai on the record

Katmai National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve in southwest Alaska, notable for the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and for its brown bears. The park and preserve encompass 4,093,077 acres (6,395.43 sq mi; 16,564.09 km2), which is between the land areas of Connecticut and New Jersey. Most of the national park is a designated wilderness area. The park is named after Mount Katmai, its centerpiece stratovolcano. The park is located on the Alaska Peninsula, across from Kodiak Island, with headquarters in nearby King Salmon, about 290 miles (470 km) southwest of Anchorage. The area was first designated a national monument in 1918 to protect the area around the major 1912 volcanic eruption of Novarupta, which formed the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a 40-square-mile (100 km2), 100-to-700-foot-deep (30 to 213 m) pyroclastic flow. The park includes as many as 18 individual volcanoes, seven of which have been active since 1900. Initially designated because of its volcanic history, the monument was left undeveloped and largely unvisited until the 1950s. The monument and surrounding lands became appreciated for their wide variety of wildlife, including an abundance of sockeye salmon and the brown bears that feed upon them. After a series of boundary expansions, the present national park and preserve were established in 1980 under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Katmai National Park and Preserve (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 Katmai use?

December 2, 1980 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Katmai'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 Katmai National Monument (1918-09-24) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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