Minnesota's Admission Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Minnesota (MN) entered the Table 1 record on May 11, 1858. Card Blueprints uses May 11 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1858 is unused.

Coordinate: the 8 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/8-of-diamonds.

Minnesota's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Minnesota at number 32 of 50. 8 years after California (number 31, 1850). Oregon follows at number 33, in 1859. 1858 carries only this one date in Table 1.

Order in Table 1

32 of 50

Date kind

Admission — admission became effective on this date

Date used

May 11, 1858

Month and day used

May 11 (the year 1858 is unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 5 + 11) = 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 May 11

none

Wikidata inception (P571)

1858-05-11

Minnesota on the record

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west. The northeast corner has a water boundary with Michigan across Lake Superior. It is the 12th-largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd-most populous, with about 5.8 million residents. Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"; it has 14,420 bodies of fresh water covering at least ten acres each. Roughly a third of the state is forested. Much of the remainder is prairie and farmland. More than 60% of Minnesotans (about 3.71 million) live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", which is Minnesota's main political, economic, and cultural hub and the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Other minor metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas include Duluth, Mankato, Moorhead, Rochester, and St. Cloud. Minnesota, which derives its name from the Dakota language, has been inhabited by various Native Americans since the Woodland period of the 11th century BCE. Between roughly 200 and 500 CE, two areas of the indigenous Hopewell tradition emerged: the Laurel complex in the north, and Trempealeau Hopewell in the Mississippi River Valley in the south. The Upper Mississippian culture, consisting of the Oneota people and other Siouan speakers, emerged around 1000 CE and lasted through the arrival of Europeans in the 17th century. French explorers and missionaries were the earliest Europeans to enter the region, encountering the Dakota, Ojibwe, and various Anishinaabe tribes.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Minnesota (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 May 11

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

Other states on the 8 of Diamonds

• Maine — 8 of Diamonds

FAQ

What date does Minnesota use?

May 11, 1858 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Minnesota'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.

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