Lassen Volcanic's National Park Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Lassen Volcanic National Park (California) became a National Park on August 9, 1916. Card Blueprints uses August 9 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1916 is unused.

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

Parks that share August 9

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

Other parks on the 4 of Diamonds

No other current National Park maps to this card.

Lassen Volcanic on the record

Lassen Volcanic National Park is a national park of the United States in northeastern California. The dominant feature of the park is Lassen Peak, the largest plug dome volcano in the world and the southernmost volcano in the Cascade Range. Lassen Volcanic National Park is one of the few areas in the world where all four types of volcanoes can be found: plug dome, shield, cinder cone, and stratovolcano. The source of heat for the volcanism in the Lassen area is subduction of the Gorda plate diving below the North American plate off the Northern California coast. The area surrounding Lassen Peak is still active with boiling mud pots, fumaroles, and hot springs. Lassen Volcanic National Park started as two separate national monuments designated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907: Cinder Cone National Monument and Lassen Peak National Monument. Starting in May 1914 and lasting until 1917, a series of minor to major eruptions occurred on Lassen. Because of the eruptive activity and the area's stark volcanic beauty, Lassen Peak, Cinder Cone, and the area surrounding were established as a National Park on August 9, 1916.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Lassen Volcanic 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 Lassen Volcanic use?

August 9, 1916 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Lassen Volcanic's National Park birth card?

The 4 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 Cinder Cone and Lassen Peak national monuments (1907-05-06) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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