National Park coordinate
White Sands's National Park Birth Card: The Jack of Hearts
Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
How the card is assigned
White Sands National Park (New Mexico) became a National Park on December 20, 2019. Card Blueprints uses December 20 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 2019 is unused.
Coordinate: the Jack of Hearts. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/jack-of-hearts.
Parks that share December 20
No other current National Park shares this month and day on the Wikipedia list.
Other parks on the Jack of Hearts
No other current National Park maps to this card.
White Sands on the record
White Sands National Park is a national park of the United States located in New Mexico and completely surrounded by White Sands Missile Range. The park covers 145,762 acres (227.8 sq mi; 589.9 km2) in the Tularosa Basin, including the southern 41% of a 275 mi2 (710 km2) field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals. This gypsum dunefield is the largest of its kind on Earth, with a depth of about 30 feet (9.1 m), dunes as tall as 60 feet (18 m), and about 4.5 billion short tons (4.1 billion metric tons) of gypsum sand. Approximately 12,000 years ago, the land within the Tularosa Basin featured large lakes, streams, grasslands, and Ice Age mammals. As the climate warmed, rain and snowmelt dissolved gypsum from the surrounding mountains and carried it into the basin. Further warming and drying caused the lakes to evaporate and form selenite crystals. Strong winds then broke up crystals and transported them eastward. A similar process continues to produce gypsum sand today. Thousands of species of animals inhabit the park, a large portion of which are invertebrates. Several animal species feature a white or off-white coloration. At least 45 species are endemic, living only in this park, with 40 of them being moth species. The Tularosa Basin has also seen a number of human inhabitants, from Paleo-Indians tens of millennia ago to modern farmers, ranchers, and miners.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article White Sands 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 White Sands use?
- December 20, 2019 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
- What is White Sands's National Park birth card?
- The Jack of Hearts. 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 White Sands National Monument (1933-01-18) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.
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Sources: Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (List of national parks of the United States, column “Date established as park”, retrieved 2026-09-06; article White Sands National Park) + NPS Park Anniversaries footnotes (nps.gov, retrieved 2026-09-06). Dates are not invented.