Kansas's Admission Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

How the card is assigned

Kansas (KS) entered the Table 1 record on January 29, 1861. Card Blueprints uses January 29 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1861 is unused.

Coordinate: the Jack of Clubs. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/jack-of-clubs.

Kansas's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Kansas at number 34 of 50. 2 years after Oregon (number 33, 1859). West Virginia follows at number 35, in 1863. 1861 carries only this one date in Table 1.

Order in Table 1

34 of 50

Date kind

Admission — admission became effective on this date

Date used

January 29, 1861

Month and day used

January 29 (the year 1861 is unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 1 + 29) = 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 January 29

none

Wikidata inception (P571)

1861-01-29

Kansas on the record

Kansas ( KAN-zəss) is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north, Colorado to the west, Oklahoma to the south, and Missouri to the east. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital is Topeka, and its most populous city is Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area surrounding Kansas City, Missouri, which straddles the border of Kansas and Missouri. For thousands of years, what is now known as Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Indigenous tribes. The first settlement of non-indigenous people in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, conflict between abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri broke out over the question of whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state, in a period known as Bleeding Kansas. On January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state, hence the unofficial nickname "The Free State". Passage of the Homestead Acts in 1862 brought a further influx of settlers, and the booming cattle trade of the 1870s attracted some of the Wild West's most iconic figures to western Kansas. As of 2015, Kansas was among the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. In addition to its traditional strength in agriculture, Kansas possesses an extensive aerospace industry. Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) is the 15th-largest state by area, the 36th most-populous of the 50 states, with a population of 2,940,865 according to the 2020 census, and the 10th least densely populated. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans or Jayhawkers.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Kansas (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 January 29

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

Other states on the Jack of Clubs

• Delaware — Jack of Clubs

FAQ

What date does Kansas use?

January 29, 1861 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Kansas'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.

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