What date does Wind Cave use?

January 9, 1903 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Wind Cave's National Park birth card?

The 5 of Spades. 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.

National Park coordinate

Wind Cave's National Park Birth Card: The 5 of Spades

Date established as National Park: January 9, 1903

Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.

How the card is assigned

Wind Cave National Park (South Dakota) became a National Park on January 9, 1903. Card Blueprints uses January 9 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1903 is unused.

Coordinate: the 5 of Spades. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/5-of-spades.

Parks that share January 9

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

Other parks on the 5 of Spades

Isle Royale — 5 of Spades
Channel Islands — 5 of Spades

Wind Cave on the record

Wind Cave National Park is a national park of the United States located 10 miles (16 km) north of the town of Hot Springs in western South Dakota. Established on January 3, 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt, it was the sixth national park in the U.S. and the first cave to be designated a national park anywhere in the world. The cave has calcite formations known as boxwork, as well as frostwork. Approximately 95 percent of the world's discovered boxwork formations are found in Wind Cave. Wind Cave is one of the best known examples of a breathing cave. The cave is recognized as the densest cave system in the world, with the greatest passage volume per cubic mile. Wind Cave is the sixth longest cave in the world with 168.02 miles (270.40 km) of explored cave passageways (as of 2025) and the third longest cave in the United States, though it is only the second longest cave in Custer County, South Dakota behind Jewel Cave. Despite the close proximity, no connection has ever been found between Wind Cave and Jewel Cave and most geologists believe the caves are not connected. Above ground, the park includes the largest remaining natural mixed grass prairie in the United States, as well as the southern terminus of the South Dakota Centennial Trail.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Wind Cave 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 Wind Cave use?: January 9, 1903 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
What is Wind Cave's National Park birth card?: The 5 of Spades. 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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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 Wind Cave National Park) + NPS Park Anniversaries footnotes (nps.gov, retrieved 2026-09-06). Dates are not invented.