A quick search on geocaching.com for all caches in Wisconsin shows that there are 7730 caches listed… this does not include archived caches, but it does include those that are temporarily disabled.

For an even more useless number, the total number of caches in Wisconsin, including archived, disabled, and never released caches is 12469. This also includes old events, caches muggled before they were ever found, cache ideas abandoned by their owners before release, caches waiting to be approved, etc. I personally find this number to be amazing, as it means that more than half of the caches placed in Wisconsin, including the events, are still active. As of yesterday, there are 196 disabled caches out there, so that means there are around 7534 active caches available to be found (less a handful of past events still in the active status).

There’s more than that because there’s also other caches out there than those listed on http://www.geocaching.com

@kbraband wrote:

If you read my blog http://iowaadmin.blogspot.com/search?q=stats+very+interesting , you saw stats about recent growth in number of caches in Iowa. Here are the equivalent stats for Wisconsin:

#Caches on May 20, 2007: 6,098
#Caches on Jan. 30, 2008: 7,724
Gain during that period: 1,626
Percentage increase: 26.7%
Caches /1,000km²: 45.5
Caches /100,000 population: 139.0

Interesting info, and I did look at the blog to see if there were more stats.

I am wondering how WI, MN, IL compare? Do you have that info? Are all the stats published somewhere?

Thanks for the stats….

z

How many are north of HWY 29???? Not many I am sure cause we found most of those. 😆
TE

There use to be a map on the WGA site that came from GC.com that showed all the caches in the state. But when GC.com switched maps, that one went bye bye 😥 . I looked at it often.

When Geocaching.com barred Buxley’s from publishing their data, they started publishing their own similar maps. They eliminated these a few months ago due to lack of interest.