Michigan's Admission Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Michigan (MI) entered the Table 1 record on January 26, 1837. Card Blueprints uses January 26 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1837 is unused.

Coordinate: the Ace of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/ace-of-diamonds.

Michigan's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Michigan at number 26 of 50. 1 year after Arkansas (number 25, 1836). Florida follows at number 27, in 1845. 1837 carries only this one date in Table 1.

Order in Table 1

26 of 50

Date kind

Admission — admission became effective on this date

Date used

January 26, 1837

Month and day used

January 26 (the year 1837 is unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 1 + 26) = 27

Coordinate

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

States sharing January 26

none

Wikidata inception (P571)

1837-01-26

Michigan on the record

Michigan ( MISH-ig-ən) is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and Illinois to the southwest, Ohio to the southeast, and the Canadian province of Ontario to the east, northeast and north. With a population of 10.13 million and an area of 96,716 sq mi (250,490 km2), Michigan is the tenth-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by total area east of the Mississippi River. The state capital is Lansing, while its most populous city is Detroit. The Metro Detroit region in Southeast Michigan is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Other important metropolitan areas include Grand Rapids, Flint, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, the Tri-Cities, and Muskegon. Michigan consists of two peninsulas: the heavily forested Upper Peninsula (commonly called "the U.P."), which juts eastward from northern Wisconsin, and the more populated Lower Peninsula, stretching north from Ohio and Indiana. The peninsulas are separated by the Straits of Mackinac, which connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and are linked by the 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge along Interstate 75. Bordering four of the five Great Lakes and Lake St. Clair, Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline of any U.S. political subdivision, measuring 3,288 miles. The state ranks second behind Alaska in water coverage by square miles and first in percentage, with approximately 42%, and it also contains 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. The Great Lakes region has largely been inhabited for thousands of years by Indigenous peoples such as the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, and Wyandot. Some people contend that the region's name is derived from the Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ (mishigami), meaning "large water" or "large lake". Others say that it comes from the Mishiiken Tribe of Mackinac Island, also called Michinemackinawgo by Ottawa historian Andrew Blackbird, whose surrounding lands were referred to as Mishiiken-imakinakom, later shortened to Michilimackinac.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Michigan (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 26

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

Other states on the Ace of Diamonds

No other state maps to this card.

FAQ

What date does Michigan use?

January 26, 1837 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Michigan's admission birth card?

The Ace 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.

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