Petrified Forest's National Park Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

How the card is assigned

Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona) became a National Park on December 9, 1962. Card Blueprints uses December 9 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1962 is unused.

Coordinate: the 9 of Clubs. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/9-of-clubs.

Parks that share December 9

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

Other parks on the 9 of Clubs

No other current National Park maps to this card.

Petrified Forest on the record

Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is about 26 miles (42 km) east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east–west. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. The park received 644,922 recreational visitors in 2018. Averaging about 5,400 feet (1,600 m) in elevation, the park has a dry windy climate with temperatures that vary from summer highs of about 100 °F (38 °C) to winter lows well below freezing. More than 400 species of plants, dominated by grasses such as bunchgrass, blue grama, and sacaton, are found in the park. Fauna include larger animals such as pronghorns, coyotes, and bobcats; many smaller animals, such as deer mice, snakes, lizards, and seven kinds of amphibians; and more than 200 species of birds, some of which are permanent residents and many of which are migratory. About one third of the park is designated wilderness—50,260 acres (79 sq mi; 203 km2). The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Epoch, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Petrified Forest 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 Petrified Forest use?

December 9, 1962 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Petrified Forest's National Park birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. 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 Petrified Forest National Monument (1906-12-08) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

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