North Dakota's Admission Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

North Dakota (ND) entered the Table 1 record on November 2, 1889. Card Blueprints uses November 2 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1889 is unused.

Coordinate: the 5 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/5-of-diamonds.

North Dakota's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists North Dakota at number 39 of 50. 13 years after Colorado (number 38, 1876). South Dakota follows at number 40, in 1889. South Dakota and Montana and Washington also enter the table in 1889, so 1889 carries 4 of the 50 dates.

Order in Table 1

39 of 50

Date kind

Admission — admission became effective on this date

Date used

November 2, 1889

Month and day used

November 2 (the year 1889 is unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 11 + 2) = 31

Coordinate

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

States sharing November 2

South Dakota

Wikidata inception (P571)

1889-11-02

North Dakota on the record

North Dakota ( də-KOH-tə) is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota and Sioux peoples. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana to the west. North Dakota is part of the Great Plains region, characterized by broad prairies, steppe, temperate savanna, badlands, and farmland. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area, but with a population of just under 800,000, the fourth-least populous and fourth-least densely populated. The state capital is Bismarck and the most populous city is Fargo, which accounts for nearly a fifth of the state's population; both cities are among the fastest-growing in the U.S., although half of North Dakotans live in rural areas. The area of North Dakota was inhabited for thousands of years by Native American tribes, including the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara along the Missouri River; the Ojibwe and Cree in the northeast; and several Sioux groups (the Nakota, Dakota, and Lakota) in the rest of the state. European explorers and traders first arrived in the early 18th century, mostly in pursuit of furs. The United States acquired the region in the early 19th century, gradually settling it amid growing resistance by increasingly displaced natives. The Dakota Territory, established in 1861, became central to American pioneers, with the Homestead Act of 1862 precipitating significant population growth and development. The traditional fur trade declined in favor of farming, particularly of wheat. The Dakota Boom of 1878 to 1886 saw giant farms stretched across the rolling prairies, with the territory becoming a regional economic power. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern railway companies competed for access to lucrative grain centers; farmers banded together in political and socioeconomic alliances that were central to the Midwest's broader Populist Movement. North and South Dakota were admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, as the 39th and 40th states. President Benjamin Harrison shuffled the statehood papers before signing them so that no one could tell which became a state first; consequently, the two states are officially numbered in alphabetical order.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article North Dakota (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 November 2

• South Dakota — November 2, 1889

Other states on the 5 of Diamonds

• South Dakota — 5 of Diamonds
• Wyoming — 5 of Diamonds

FAQ

What date does North Dakota use?

November 2, 1889 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is North Dakota's admission birth card?

The 5 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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