Utah's Admission Birth Card: The 10 of Spades

How the card is assigned

Utah (UT) entered the Table 1 record on January 4, 1896. Card Blueprints uses January 4 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1896 is unused.

Coordinate: the 10 of Spades. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/10-of-spades.

Utah's place in the admission record

CRS R47747 Table 1 lists Utah at number 45 of 50. 6 years after Wyoming (number 44, 1890). Oklahoma follows at number 46, in 1907. 1896 carries only this one date in Table 1.

Order in Table 1

45 of 50

Date kind

Admission — admission became effective on this date

Date used

January 4, 1896

Month and day used

January 4 (the year 1896 is unused)

Solar value

55 − (2 × 1 + 4) = 49

Coordinate

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

States sharing January 4

none

Wikidata inception (P571)

1896-01-04

Utah on the record

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, and Nevada to the west. In comparison to all the U.S. states and territories, Utah, with a population of just over three million, is the 13th-largest by area, the 30th-most populous, and the 11th-least densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two regions: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which includes the state capital, Salt Lake City, and is home to roughly two-thirds of the population; and Washington County in the southwest, which has approximately 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin. Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various Indigenous peoples, such as the ancient Puebloans, the Navajo, and the Ute. The first Europeans to arrive – in the mid-16th century – were the Spanish. Because of the region's challenging geography and harsh climate, it only became a peripheral part of New Spain (and later of Mexico). Even while it was Mexican territory, many of the Utah region's earliest European settlers were from the United States; notable among these were Mormons who were fleeing marginalization and persecution in the United States and arrived via the so-called Mormon Trail. In 1848, after the Mexican–American War, the region was annexed by the U.S., becoming part of the Utah Territory, which included what later became Colorado and Nevada. Disputes between the dominant Mormon community and Congress delayed Utah's admission as a state: in 1896, after it agreed to outlaw polygamy, it was admitted as the 45th state. People from Utah are known as Utahns. Slightly over half of all Utahns are Mormons, the vast majority of whom are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which has its world headquarters in Salt Lake City; Utah is the only state where a majority of the population belongs to a single church.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Utah (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 4

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

Other states on the 10 of Spades

No other state maps to this card.

FAQ

What date does Utah use?

January 4, 1896 — the CRS R47747 Table 1 admission date. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Utah's admission birth card?

The 10 of Spades. 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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