Yellowstone's National Park Birth Card: The 9 of Spades

How the card is assigned

Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, Montana, Idaho) became a National Park on March 1, 1872. Card Blueprints uses March 1 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1872 is unused.

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

Parks that share March 1

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

Other parks on the 9 of Spades

No other current National Park maps to this card.

Yellowstone on the record

Yellowstone National Park is a national park of the United States located mainly in the northwest corner of the state of Wyoming, with small portions extending into Montana and Idaho. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially the Old Faithful geyser, one of its most popular. While it represents many types of biomes, subalpine forest is the most abundant. It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion. Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years. While non-native mountain men visited during the early-to-mid-19th century, organized exploration by non-natives did not begin until the late 1860s. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress through the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first national park in the US, and is also widely understood to be the first national park in the world. Management and control of the park originally fell under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of the Interior, the first Secretary of the Interior to supervise the park being Columbus Delano.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Yellowstone 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 Yellowstone use?

March 1, 1872 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Yellowstone's National Park birth card?

The 9 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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