What date does South Dakota use?

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

What is South 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.

State coordinate

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

Admission date: November 2, 1889

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

How the card is assigned

South Dakota (SD) 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.

South Dakota's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists South Dakota at number 40 of 50. North Dakota entered the same year, at number 39. Montana follows at number 41, in 1889. North Dakota and Montana and Washington also enter the table in 1889, so 1889 carries 4 of the 50 dates.

Order in Table 1: 40 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: North Dakota
Wikidata inception (P571): 1889-11-02

South Dakota on the record

South Dakota ( də-KOH-tə; Dakota: Dakȟóta itókaga, pronounced [daˈkˣota iˈtokaga]) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Dakota Sioux tribe, which comprises a large portion of the population and has historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the 17th-largest by area, the fifth-least populous, and the fifth-least densely populated of the 50 United States. Pierre is the state capital, and Sioux Falls, with a population of about 213,900, is the most populous city. The Missouri River bisects the state into two geographically and socially distinct halves colloquially known as "East River" and "West River". South Dakota is bordered by North Dakota to the north, Minnesota to the east, Iowa to the southeast, Nebraska to the south, Wyoming to the west, and Montana to the northwest. Humans have inhabited the area for several millennia, with the Sioux becoming dominant by the early 19th century. In the late 19th century, European-American settlement intensified after a gold rush in the Black Hills and the construction of railroads from the east. Encroaching miners and settlers triggered a number of Indian wars, ending with the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. They are the 39th and 40th states admitted to the union; President Benjamin Harrison shuffled the statehood papers before signing them so that no one could tell which became a state first. Major events in the 20th century included the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, increased federal spending during the 1940s and 1950s for agriculture and defense, and the industrialization of agriculture, which has reduced family farming. Eastern South Dakota is home to most of its population, and a variety of crops grow in the area's fertile soil.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article South 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

North Dakota — November 2, 1889

Other states on the 5 of Diamonds

North Dakota — 5 of Diamonds
Wyoming — 5 of Diamonds

FAQ

What date does South Dakota use?: November 2, 1889 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.
What is South 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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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).