How many caches in WI?

[EnergySaver]

How many caches are there currently in WI?

I assume that information is on the WGA site somewhere, but I’m just not finding it.

[Jeremy]

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.

[LightningBugs Mum]

Current tally for WI I’m seeing is 7730.

I’m getting that number from geocaching.com for a standard state search.

Edit: ooooo…ninja’d by Jeremy

[Team Deejay]

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).

[EnergySaver]

thanks gang … I forgot that you can pick a state on GC

[rogheff]

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

[kbraband]

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

[zuma]

@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

[sunski]

Wow! Folks have been busy hiding things…I’d better get cracking. Those caches aren’t going to find themselves!

To find them all in a year, you’d have to do about what…21 a day?

[Timberline Echoes]

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

[Team Deejay]

I do have a database of all caches placed on or before 9/23/07, so it is a little out of date. I show 1275 caches north of 44° 56′, which is roughly where 29 runs west of Wausau. I’m sure there are a quite few north of 29, but south this line in the eastern part of the state, particularly in Green Bay.

[cheezehead]

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.

[rogheff]

Talk about coincidence. You’re talking about this map http://www.brillig.com/geocaching/wisconsin.shtml I was bored yesterday and was searching through some really old threads – before my time. This was in a thread, in the Help section, where someone asked about the geocaching epicenter in Wisconsin.

This map was suggested. I believe that was before Jeremy Irish had a fight with Buxley and probably had more info on it, then it does today.

I’d be curious to see where he epicenter has moved has moved.

[Team Deejay]

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.

[rogheff]

According to Buxley, it barred geocaching.com from listing on it’s maps. But since none of us were there, we can’t possibly know the real reason.

However, since the link I provided has data on caches that were placed as of yesterday, Buxley is alive and well. Did you mean geocaching.com no longer publishes maps?

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