Georgia's Admission Birth Card: The Queen of Spades

How the card is assigned

Georgia (GA) entered the Table 1 record on January 2, 1788. Card Blueprints uses January 2 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1788 is unused.

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

Georgia's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Georgia at number 4 of 50. 1 year after New Jersey (number 3, 1787). Connecticut follows at number 5, in 1788. Connecticut and Massachusetts and Maryland and South Carolina and New Hampshire and Virginia and New York also enter the table in 1788, so 1788 carries 8 of the 50 dates.

Order in Table 1

4 of 50

Date kind

Ratification — an original state, dated by its ratification of the Constitution

Date used

January 2, 1788

Month and day used

January 2 (the year 1788 is unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 1 + 2) = 51

Coordinate

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

States sharing January 2

none

Wikidata inception (P571)

1788-01-02

Georgia on the record

Georgia ( JOR-jə) is a state in the Southeastern, South Atlantic, and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the northwest, North Carolina and South Carolina to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 U.S. states, Georgia is the 24th-largest by area and eighth-most populous. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, its 2025 estimated population was 11,302,748. Atlanta, a global city, is both the state's capital and its largest city. The Atlanta metropolitan area, with a population greater than 6.3 million people in 2023, is the eighth most populous metropolitan area in the United States and contains about 57% of Georgia's entire population. Other major metropolitan areas in the state include Augusta, Savannah, Columbus, and Macon. The Province of Georgia was established in 1732, with its first settlement occurring in 1733 when Savannah was founded. By 1752, Georgia had transitioned into a British royal colony, making it the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies. On January 2, 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution. Between 1802 and 1804, a portion of western Georgia was carved out to create the Mississippi Territory, which eventually became the U.S. states of Alabama and Mississippi. Georgia declared its secession from the Union on January 19, 1861, joining the ranks of the original seven Confederate States. After the Civil War, it was the last state to be readmitted to the Union on July 15, 1870.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Georgia (U.S. state) (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

Georgia is one of the original 13. CRS R47747 Table 1 records the date this state ratified the Constitution (January 2, 1788), not an admission act.

States that share January 2

No other state shares this month and day on the CRS table.

Other states on the Queen of Spades

No other state maps to this card.

FAQ

What date does Georgia use?

January 2, 1788 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 ratification date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Georgia's admission birth card?

The Queen of Spades. 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.

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