State coordinate
Delaware's Admission Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs
Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
How the card is assigned
Delaware (DE) entered the Table 1 record on December 7, 1787. Card Blueprints uses December 7 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1787 is unused.
Coordinate: the Jack of Clubs. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/jack-of-clubs.
Delaware's place in the admission record
CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Delaware at number 1 of 50. Pennsylvania follows at number 2, in 1787. Pennsylvania and New Jersey also enter the table in 1787, so 1787 carries 3 of the 50 dates.
- Order in Table 1
- 1 of 50
- Date kind
- Ratification — an original state, dated by its ratification of the Constitution
- Date used
- December 7, 1787
- Month and day used
- December 7 (the year 1787 is unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 12 + 7) = 24
- Coordinate
- Jack of Clubs — Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
- States sharing December 7
- none
- Wikidata inception (P571)
- 1787-12-07
Delaware on the record
Delaware ( DEL-ə-wair) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic regions of the United States. It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey to its northeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state's name derives from the adjacent Delaware Bay, which in turn was named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and the Colony of Virginia's first colonial-era governor. Delaware occupies the northeastern portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, and some islands and territory within the Delaware River. It is the second-smallest and sixth-least populous state, but also the sixth-most densely populated. Delaware's most populous city is Wilmington, and the state's capital is Dover, the second-most populous city in Delaware. The state is divided into three counties, the fewest number of counties of any of the 50 U.S. states; from north to south, the three counties are: New Castle County, Kent County, and Sussex County. The southern two counties, Kent and Sussex, have historically been predominantly agrarian economies. New Castle is more urbanized and is considered part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Delaware is considered part of the Southern United States by the U.S. Census Bureau, but the state's geography, culture, and history are a hybrid of the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, and Southern regions of the country. Before the Delaware coastline was explored and developed by Europeans in the 17th century, the state was inhabited by several Native American tribes, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south. The state was first colonized by Dutch traders at Zwaanendael, near present-day Lewes, Delaware, in 1631. Delaware was one of the Thirteen Colonies that participated in the American Revolution against Great Britain, which established the United States as an independent nation.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Delaware (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article; the admission date itself comes from CRS R47747, not Wikipedia.
Constitution ratification date
Delaware is one of the original 13. CRS R47747 Table 1 records the date this state ratified the Constitution (December 7, 1787), not an admission act.
States that share December 7
No other state shares this month and day on the CRS table.
Other states on the Jack of Clubs
- Kansas — Jack of Clubs
FAQ
- What date does Delaware use?
- December 7, 1787 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 ratification date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
- What is Delaware's admission birth card?
- The Jack of Clubs. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the state.
- Where do the dates come from?
- Primary: CRS R47747 Table 1. Secondary: Wikipedia’s list of U.S. states by date of admission. Optional Wikidata P571 matched the CRS day for every state QID used here.
Get your own coordinate
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Sources: CRS R47747 Table 1 (congress.gov, PDF R47747.16) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union). Optional Wikidata P571 cross-check via REST wbgetentities (no SPARQL).