Kentucky's Admission Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

How the card is assigned

Kentucky (KY) entered the Table 1 record on June 1, 1792. Card Blueprints uses June 1 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1792 is unused.

Coordinate: the 3 of Spades. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/3-of-spades.

Kentucky's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Kentucky at number 15 of 50. 1 year after Vermont (number 14, 1791). Tennessee follows at number 16, in 1796. 1792 carries only this one date in Table 1.

Order in Table 1

15 of 50

Date kind

Admission — admission became effective on this date

Date used

June 1, 1792

Month and day used

June 1 (the year 1792 is unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 6 + 1) = 42

Coordinate

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

States sharing June 1

Tennessee

Wikidata inception (P571)

1792-06-01

Kentucky on the record

Kentucky (US: , UK: ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and Missouri to the west. Its northern border is defined by the Ohio River. Its capital is Frankfort and its most populous city is Louisville. As of 2024, the state's population was approximately 4.6 million. Previously a part of Virginia, Kentucky was admitted into the Union as the fifteenth state on June 1, 1792. It is known as the "Bluegrass State" in reference to Kentucky bluegrass, a species of grass introduced by European settlers, which has long supported the state's thoroughbred horse industry. The fertile soil in the central and western parts of the state led to the development of large tobacco plantations similar to those in Virginia and North Carolina, which utilized slave labor prior to the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Kentucky ranks fifth nationally in goat farming, eighth in beef cattle production, and fourteenth in corn production. While Kentucky has been a long-standing center for the tobacco industry, its economy has diversified into non-agricultural sectors including auto manufacturing, energy production, and medicine. Kentucky ranks fourth among US states in the number of automobiles and trucks assembled. It is one of several states considered part of the Upland South. The state is home to the world's longest known cave system in Mammoth Cave National Park, and the nation's two largest artificial lakes east of the Mississippi River. Cultural aspects of Kentucky include horse racing, bourbon, moonshine, coal mining, My Old Kentucky Home State Park, automobile manufacturing, tobacco, Southern cuisine, barbecue, bluegrass music, college basketball, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Kentucky (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 June 1

• Tennessee — June 1, 1796

Other states on the 3 of Spades

• Tennessee — 3 of Spades

FAQ

What date does Kentucky use?

June 1, 1792 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Kentucky's admission birth card?

The 3 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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