Virgin Islands's National Park Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Virgin Islands National Park (U.S. Virgin Islands) became a National Park on August 2, 1956. Card Blueprints uses August 2 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1956 is unused.

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

Parks that share August 2

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

Other parks on the Jack of Diamonds

No other current National Park maps to this card.

Virgin Islands on the record

The Virgin Islands National Park is a national park of the United States preserving about 60% of the land area of Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as more than 5,500 acres (2,226 ha; 9 sq mi) of adjacent ocean, and nearly all of Hassel Island, just off the Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas harbor. The park is well known for scuba diving and snorkeling, and has miles of hiking trails through the tropical rainforest. Cruz Bay is the gateway port to the park, as well as the visitor center location. Ferries operate hourly from Red Hook, St. Thomas, thrice daily from Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas and West End, Tortola, twice daily from Jost Van Dyke, and twice weekly from Virgin Gorda. Two category 5 hurricanes impacted the Virgin Islands in September 2017, Irma and Maria. The park received 112,287 visitors in 2018, after having received 304,408 visitors in 2017, and an average of more than 450,000 visitors per year in the preceding ten-year period from 2007 to 2016. The park was reopened in December 2017 with all roads, trails and beaches declared accessible to visitors.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Virgin Islands 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 Virgin Islands use?

August 2, 1956 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Virgin Islands's National Park birth card?

The Jack 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. This park’s Wikipedia National Park date is the first-unit date used here; any later rename or expansion is noted when Wikipedia or NPS records it.

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