A seedling from the State/Country stats - WI Counties

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:30 am

While at the Way Up Nord Event, we got into some pretty indepth, fireside chat. One of these conversations was not so profound but interesting and was about the counties in WI we have cached in.

When the event was kicked off, we found Trudy and the Best departing for Florence Co. first thing, instead of the temps. why would that be??? Well, it seems another popular goal is hitting all the counties in Wisconsin. So.......... here we go...I'll start the list off.

I used a listing of all the counties, from the website: http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/core/wisconsin_counties.html

For a general map of all counties only, I used http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/wisconsin_map.html

For myself, I can color in the counties I have cached in then list them. (I need visuals LOL) I am using a 3 letter code for counties, except for co's with 2 names, i.e. Eau Claire = EC or Green Lake = GL. A few co's started with the same 3 letters, so I chose those which sound similar to actual co. name.

If a listing of the counties with coresponding code letter is wanted, just e-mail me at.

Thanks Marc, for the initial stats idea. If you would like to participate, please e-mail me the info you have on your cached counties at

cacheboppinbunnyfufu at yahoo dot com

Just list your co's in the e-mail, I'll convert them over to the 3 letter code. Thanks!! Anne

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:31 am

17 Counties - Cache boppin BunnyFuFu - MRN, OCO, BRN, DOR, KEW, MAN, CAL, WIN, WAU, SHE, GL, COL, WAS, SAK, WAK, MIL, OZA

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:48 pm

After some map comparing... and some counting we have come up with 35; VIL, ONE, IRO, ASH, BAY, DOU, WAS, SAW, PRI, FOR, FLO, MARI, OCO, MEN, LAN, LIM, TAY, RUS, CHI, CLA, MARA, SHA, BRO, OUT, WAU, POR, WOO, MON, ADA, WINN, FON, CAL, SHE, WAS, and OZA.
Timberline Echoes

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:09 pm

BTW, in case someone does not know. Wisconsin has 72 counties.

Marc_54140 43 (ADA,BRP,CAL,CHI,CLA,COL,DAN,DOD,DOO,DUN,EAU,FON,GRE,JAC,JEF,JUN,KEW,LAC,LAN,MAN,MARA,MARI,MARQ,MIL,OCO,OUT,OZA,PEP,PIE,POR,RAC,ROC,SAI,SHA,SHE,TRE,VER,WAS,WAUK,WAUP,WAUS,WIN,WOO)

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:53 pm

Trudy & the beast - 38 (Brown, Cala, Chip, Colu, Dane, Dodge, Door,Flor, Fond,Forst, Jack, Jeff, Juno, Ken, Kewa, LaCr, Lang, Mani, Mara, Meno, Milw, Oco, Onei. Outa, Ozau, Rac, Rock, Sauk, Shaw, Sheb, Vern, Vilas, Walw, Wash, Wauk, Waup, Waus, Winn)

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:45 pm

65 counties I have list of a caches I have done, 3 more I am sure I have cached in and trying to verify and Menominee County I know I have not cached in. That still leaves a few to go find.

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:49 pm

Wholey cow. I go out caching for ONE day and come back to a whole lot of info I gotta get moving on LOL Thanks for states. I am working on a file and will post what I have sooooooooooon.

Would have done that today but I am trying to reach my goal of 400 my Dec 31, 2005, so we were out in West Bend and got 30 in for the day. Darn I already HAVE Washington Co.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:08 am

is there an easy way to figure out where the caches you have done previously are?

Joined: 2003-09-10 Posts: 1263 Location: Bristol WI

quote:
Originally posted by djwini:
is there an easy way to figure out where the caches you have done previously are?

Easy way? I have not found one.

I ran a PQ of all my finds and then exported them into Mapsource, which is pretty easy to use in determining where the county lines are in most places.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:17 pm

i have mapsource and i can't find any county lines on the maps. how do i get them to show up?

Joined: 2003-09-10 Posts: 1263 Location: Bristol WI

quote:
Originally posted by djwini:
i have mapsource and i can't find any county lines on the maps. how do i get them to show up?

Switch to the "lowest" detail setting and zoom out to about 30 miles.

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:03 pm

we searched and found that we have cached in 38 of the 72 counties: Ashland, Bayfield, Brown, Calumet, Chippewa, Dodge, Door, Douglas, Dunn, Eau Claire, Florence, Fond Du Lac, Forest, Green Lake, Iron, Kenosha, Kewaunee, Langlade, Lincoln, Mantowoc, Marathon, Marinette, Menominee, Milwaukee, Oconto, Outagamie, Portage, Price, Racine, Shawano, Sheboygan, Taylor, Vilas, Washington, Waukesha, Waupaca, Winnebago.

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:37 pm

I'll be tabulating soon!!!! I HOPE!! yeah yeah.....I will

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:26 pm

Got somewhat of a tally together, but just numbers. Working with marc_54140 for a format to put ALL stats together...... possibly!!!! We need to devise something different since the lists of actually states and WI counties is getting VERY long. This is what I have so for. Please feel free to continue to add counties to the list. Just let me know which one that might be OR the total number you are up to.

So far.............

13 WI counties for Lostby7
17 WI counties for Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu
30 WI counties for AstorD
35 WI counties for Timberline Echoes
38 WI counties for Trudy & The Beast
38 WI counties for sweetlife
44 WI counties for Cathunter
65 WI counties for Natloh2