State coordinate
Iowa's Admission Birth Card: The 3 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
Iowa (IA) entered the Table 1 record on December 28, 1846. Card Blueprints uses December 28 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1846 is unused.
Coordinate: the 3 of Hearts. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/3-of-hearts.
Iowa's place in the admission record
CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Iowa at number 29 of 50. 1 year after Texas (number 28, 1845). Wisconsin follows at number 30, in 1848. 1846 carries only this one date in Table 1.
- Order in Table 1
- 29 of 50
- Date kind
- Admission — admission became effective on this date
- Date used
- December 28, 1846
- Month and day used
- December 28 (the year 1846 is unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 12 + 28) = 3
- Coordinate
- 3 of Hearts — Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
- States sharing December 28
- none
- Wikidata inception (P571)
- 1846-12-28
Iowa on the record
Iowa ( EYE-ə-wə) is a landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and southeast, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the north. Iowa is the 26th largest in total area and the 31st most populous of the 50 U.S. states, with a population of 3.19 million. The state's capital, most populous city, and largest metropolitan area fully located within the state is Des Moines. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, Iowa was a part of French Louisiana and Spanish Louisiana; its state flag is patterned after the flag of France. After the Louisiana Purchase, pioneers laid the foundation for an agriculture-based economy in the heart of the Corn Belt. In the latter half of the 20th century, Iowa's agricultural economy began to transition to a diversified economy of advanced manufacturing, processing, financial services, information technology, biotechnology, and green energy production. Politically, Iowa is notable for the Iowa Caucuses, an influential event in national politics, as well as its high levels of voter turnout and foundational leadership in civil rights including early adoption or support of black suffrage.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Iowa (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.
States that share December 28
No other state shares this month and day on the CRS table.
Other states on the 3 of Hearts
No other state maps to this card.
FAQ
- What date does Iowa use?
- December 28, 1846 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
- What is Iowa's admission birth card?
- The 3 of Hearts. 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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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).