State coordinate
Maine's Admission Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds
Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
How the card is assigned
Maine (ME) entered the Table 1 record on March 15, 1820. Card Blueprints uses March 15 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1820 is unused.
Coordinate: the 8 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/8-of-diamonds.
Maine's place in the admission record
CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Maine at number 23 of 50. 1 year after Alabama (number 22, 1819). Missouri follows at number 24, in 1821. 1820 carries only this one date in Table 1.
- Order in Table 1
- 23 of 50
- Date kind
- Admission — admission became effective on this date
- Date used
- March 15, 1820
- Month and day used
- March 15 (the year 1820 is unused)
- Solar value
- 55 − (2 × 3 + 15) = 34
- Coordinate
- 8 of Diamonds — Calendar coordinate only — month and day map to this card. Year is unused. Not a fortune-telling reading.
- States sharing March 15
- none
- Wikidata inception (P571)
- 1820-03-15
Maine on the record
Maine ( MAYN) is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the contiguous United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, and shares a maritime border with Nova Scotia. It is the only state to border only one other state (New Hampshire). Maine is the largest state in New England by total area, almost as large as the combined area of the remaining five states. Of the 50 U.S. states, it is the 12th-smallest by area, the 9th-least populous, the 13th-least densely populated, and the most rural. As of 2024, Maine's population stood at a Census-estimated 1,400,000, the state's highest-ever population estimate. Maine's capital is Augusta, while its most populous city is Portland. The territory of Maine has been inhabited by Indigenous populations for about 12,000 years, after the glaciers retreated during the last ice age. At the time of European arrival, several Algonquian-speaking nations governed the area and these nations are now known as the Wabanaki Confederacy. The first European settlement in the area was by the French in 1604 on Saint Croix Island, founded by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons. The first English settlement was the short-lived Popham Colony, established by the Plymouth Company in 1607. A number of Irish and English settlements were established along the coast of Maine in the 1620s, although the rugged climate and conflict with the local Indigenous people and the French caused many to fail. Maine experienced significant warfare during the 17th century. As Maine entered the 18th century, only a half dozen European settlements had survived.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Maine (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 March 15
No other state shares this month and day on the CRS table.
Other states on the 8 of Diamonds
- Minnesota — 8 of Diamonds
FAQ
- What date does Maine use?
- March 15, 1820 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
- What is Maine's admission birth card?
- The 8 of Diamonds. 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).