+Texsox Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I was just looking over my area and fixin' to (y'all know what that means, but for the Yankees that means, getting ready to ) add 400 waypoints to my Garmin and thought I would cover a very wide area, turned out 20 miles from my home coordinates was all it took. (78541 land) So how many close to your home? Figured another way, and if I am doing my math properly, in my town of 50,000, we have about one cache for every 250 residents Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 (edited) 17 within ten miles. 71 within fifteen miles 226 within twenty miles. Edited January 10, 2008 by BlueDeuce Quote Link to comment
+wandererrob Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I live in an area of smallish towns and have nearly 300 within 10 miles. Of which I've logged 9, and only 1 or 2 of those since actually moving to the town. Funny hting about buying a house. That first year really cuts into your geocaching time, and any other time for that matter. I'll get busy caching again in the spring and perhaps, maybe, just maybe hide one or 2 if I find a good place. I've got one spot on the radar already. Here's hopin'! Quote Link to comment
+admo1972 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 118 within 5 miles 382 within 10 miles 888 within 20 miles Quote Link to comment
+jipow Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 10 miles = 9 20 miles = 88 Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 You're about the same as me, 400 within 20 miles. Although, the Cascades start getting in the way for us a bit. Just under 70 of those 400 are mine and my family's. Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 46 within 20 miles. 27 are mine. Quote Link to comment
Dj Storm Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 0 within 60 miles (closest one: 104.2 km / 64.8 miles) 8 within 100 miles (6 of them are active) is this a "negative record"? Quote Link to comment
+Texsox Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 0 within 60 miles (closest one: 104.2 km / 64.8 miles) 8 within 100 miles (6 of them are active) is this a "negative record"? I guess you will have to get really drunk and hide a few. Quote Link to comment
+3 Hawks Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Total Active Caches: 10 miles: 344 20 miles: 917 50 miles: 2720 Ones I've Not Found: 10 miles: 0 20 miles: 15 50 miles: 1112 Quote Link to comment
+boda Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 10 miles: 720 20 miles: 1,980 50 miles: 8,320 All include a mix of urban/mountain/desert caches. The 50 mile range includes Eastern Los Angeles/Orange County cities and Palm Springs. I understand that there is an LPC hidden somewhere in that area, but I'm still looking. Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 612 within 20 miles. I live in a rural area, but if I move the center point closer to the large Metropolitan area I live near, there are only 989 . . . but then, I've found 1860 within that same circle . . . Quote Link to comment
+desmo13 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 161 in 10 miles 773 in 20 miles 2455 in 30 miles. (Bay Area, Ca) Quote Link to comment
+Bunganator Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 316 within 5 Miles 1083 within 10 Miles 2591 within 20 Miles 4034 within 50 Miles My "Home" is at a University in the very center of the Twin Cities. Too bad I dont have a car. Quote Link to comment
+brodiebunch Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 2600 at 20 miles from my home zip code. 5000 at 40 miles In Seattle we are ground zero for geocaches. Quote Link to comment
+Earl B. Fisk Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 142 within 10 miles 212 within 20 miles 281 within 30 miles (have found 168 of these) 1007 within 50 miles Tuscaloosa, Alabama area Quote Link to comment
+palser Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 172/20mile 64 are mine about 30,000 population Quote Link to comment
+blackoakred Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 15 w/in 10 miles (5 of them mine) 38 w/in 20 miles 114 w/in 30 miles 392 w/in 50 miles Rural northeast Texas. Quote Link to comment
crawil Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 5 miles = 274 (4 are mine) 10 miles = 973 15 miles = 2054 20 miles = 3462 Orange County, CA - I've got quite a bit of work still to do! Quote Link to comment
crawil Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 2600 at 20 miles from my home zip code. 5000 at 40 miles In Seattle we are ground zero for geocaches. Sorry, but I think ground zero has moved a bit south. I've got over 8,000 at 40 miles in Southern California. Quote Link to comment
+Recdiver Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 O.k. it has been a while for me so I'll ask. How do you find out how many are close to your home by miles? Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 (edited) O.k. it has been a while for me so I'll ask. How do you find out how many are close to your home by miles? You can do a search on nearest caches from your account page and count the results. Edited January 10, 2008 by sbell111 Quote Link to comment
+Team Cotati Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Who asked this question.....................again? Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 (edited) O.k. it has been a while for me so I'll ask. How do you find out how many are close to your home by miles? If you are a Premium Member, download a PQ (Pocket Query) of the 500 closest caches to your home coordinates. Open that file in GSAK (Geocaching Survival Army Knife (gsak.net)) and select a filter by distance from your home. As to the OP, I guess I am a slacker! There are 65 caches within 5 miles of home, 6 are mine, and I have found 39 of the rest. There are 500 within 13.8 miles, 21 are mine, but I have found only 188 of the rest! Edited January 10, 2008 by TheAlabamaRambler Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 67 within 5 miles 134 within 10 miles 568 within 20 miles 1124 within 30 miles 1505 within 40 miles 1742 within 50 miles Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 O.k. it has been a while for me so I'll ask. How do you find out how many are close to your home by miles? If you are a Premium Member, download a PQ (Pocket Query) of the 500 closest caches to your home coordinates. Open that file in GSAK (Geocaching Survival Army Knife (gsak.net)) and select a filter by distance from your home. The problem is, you really need to do more than 1 query to get them all for many areas. You could build them by dates and distance, run them online and add them together, but the 'nearest' search is just as easy. Quote Link to comment
+HaLiJuSaPa Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I can't really accurately/fairly do a radius search because here we have some unique limits of geography that can also strain the budget. Within 20 miles includes: Manhattan: Crappy GPS signal, mostly urban micros, a pain in the a** to go to with a car Toll bridges/rivers: Caches in NJ that are sometimes just 5 miles aways as the crow flies can be 20 miles of driving each way and soon to be $8 round=trip toll to boot (have done a few though, the view from the Palisades is just too nice to ignore). Some caches in Long Island are only 5-10 miles as the crow flies, but again 20+ miles each way of driving and tolls. So realistically for our "radius" for quick, inexpensive caching would only include mostly the immediate north of me which limits it a little bit. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 If you don't mind not computing the number from your actual home, getting the numbers by zip code is easy peasy. Quote Link to comment
+Team Black-Cat Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 10 Miles - 120 15 Miles - 166 20 Miles - 220 Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 I can't really accurately/fairly do a radius search because here we have some unique limits of geography that can also strain the budget. Within 20 miles includes: Manhattan: Crappy GPS signal, mostly urban micros, a pain in the a** to go to with a car Toll bridges/rivers: Caches in NJ that are sometimes just 5 miles aways as the crow flies can be 20 miles of driving each way and soon to be $8 round=trip toll to boot (have done a few though, the view from the Palisades is just too nice to ignore). Some caches in Long Island are only 5-10 miles as the crow flies, but again 20+ miles each way of driving and tolls. So realistically for our "radius" for quick, inexpensive caching would only include mostly the immediate north of me which limits it a little bit. We run into the same problem with Andy Bear's Ten-Mile List (from north Joisey)! But little of the Bronx is on his list, and we have done six there. It's Queens and Brooklyn that are the pain!! I think we have nine left to do on Manhattan, including the rock climbing cache and the kayaking cache. From my home coordinates: 10 miles - 340 20 miles - 1230 Quote Link to comment
+MaplessInSeattle Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 (edited) 1 mile=16 2 mile=44 3 mile=98 4 mile=158 5 mile=247 6 mile=328 7 mile=409 8 mile>500 Nifty, when I get better with GSAK, I'll have to try this again. On the Find Nearest, I get 5553 within 50 miles Edited January 11, 2008 by MaplessInSeattle Quote Link to comment
+FamilyDNA Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 5 miles: 300 10 miles: 1870 Quote Link to comment
+Trucker Lee Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 (edited) 20 within 5 miles 39 --- 10 72 --- 15 145 --- 20 285 --- 25 (we are getting into Dallas County now) 804 --- 30 1239 --- 35 1845 --- 40 Okay, enough of that! The 2000th nearest cache from my home as of now is 41.4 miles distant. The search returned 3166 caches on 159 pages, the last two an even 50 miles away. So many caches, so little time. Edit to clarify. Edited January 11, 2008 by Trucker Lee Quote Link to comment
+OzGuff Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Total Active Caches: 10 miles: 749 20 miles: 1430 50 miles: 3016 Ones I've Not Found: 10 miles: 1 (an upcoming event cache) 20 miles: 5 50 miles: 267 Ones I Own: 10 miles: 304 20 miles: 416 50 miles: 735 Quote Link to comment
+scuba dude Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 (edited) 10 miles = 19 caches 20 miles = 28 30 miles = 45 40 miles = 67 50 miles = 139 12 of those 139 are mine, so thats 127 unique caches I can log. There is one NEW cache a few miles from my home that I haven't gotten yet. Other than that one, the nearest cache is 20 miles away. A few more and I have to break the 30 mile mark. Some of ya'll don't realize just how good you have it. SD Edited January 11, 2008 by scuba dude Quote Link to comment
+Recdiver Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 O.k. it has been a while for me so I'll ask. How do you find out how many are close to your home by miles? You can do a search on nearest caches from your account page and count the results. Sounds like too much work plus I cans only count to the number of fingers and toes that I has. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 O.k. it has been a while for me so I'll ask. How do you find out how many are close to your home by miles? You can do a search on nearest caches from your account page and count the results. Sounds like too much work plus I cans only count to the number of fingers and toes that I has. The zip code search is much easier. All you do is enter your zip code and tell it how many miles to go out. Quote Link to comment
Snarf93 Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 274 within 10 miles 1056 within 20 miles 2537 within 50 miles Quote Link to comment
+Bad_CRC Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 (edited) Available Caches 100 within 5 miles 130 within 10 miles 214 within 20 miles 400 within 35 miles UNFOUND 50 within 5 miles 75 within 10 miles 150 within 20 miles 240 within 30 miles UNFOUND - ** NON-Micros 5 within 5 miles 16 within 10 miles 45 within 20 miles 100 within 30 miles Edited January 12, 2008 by Bad_CRC Quote Link to comment
+TrailGators Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 (edited) 4 within 1 mile 79 within 5 miles 462 within 10 miles 1020 within 15 miles 1942 within 20 miles but the ocean chops off some area. 6106 within 50 miles but the ocean chops off a lot of area. Edited January 12, 2008 by TrailGators Quote Link to comment
Neos2 Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 I live near a metro area. I centered this on my home cords. If I shifted to the south side of the metro area, the numbers would be a tad higher. But these may keep us busy for a little while. 4 within 1 mile 775 within 10 miles 1625 within 20 miles 3225 within 50 miles Quote Link to comment
+hdegraaf Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 I was just looking over my area and fixin' to (y'all know what that means, but for the Yankees that means, getting ready to ) add 400 waypoints to my Garmin and thought I would cover a very wide area, turned out 20 miles from my home coordinates was all it took. (78541 land) So how many close to your home? Figured another way, and if I am doing my math properly, in my town of 50,000, we have about one cache for every 250 residents 15 -- 1 mile 272 -- 5 miles 932 -- 10 miles 1895 -- 15 miles 3233 -- 25 miles 5618 -- 50miles Quote Link to comment
+hdegraaf Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 (edited) I was just looking over my area and fixin' to (y'all know what that means, but for the Yankees that means, getting ready to ) add 400 waypoints to my Garmin and thought I would cover a very wide area, turned out 20 miles from my home coordinates was all it took. (78541 land) So how many close to your home? Figured another way, and if I am doing my math properly, in my town of 50,000, we have about one cache for every 250 residents 15 -- 1 mile 272 -- 5 miles 932 -- 10 miles 1895 -- 15 miles 3233 -- 25 miles 5618 -- 50miles 6 of them are mine Edited January 13, 2008 by hdegraaf Quote Link to comment
+Driver Carries Cache Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 (edited) If I run a PQ from home coordinates 500 caches will only get me about 9.8 miles from home! Nearest cache to my home coordinates is 136 feet... and it's not even mine! There are 12 caches within a mile of home, 3 of which I still haven't found... and not for lack of trying! 10 Mile Radius: 520 20 Mile Radius: 1761 DCC Edited January 13, 2008 by Driver Carries Cache Quote Link to comment
+joranda Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 I'm down to 21 caches within a 50 mile radius. Now I must travel to enjoy a long day of caching. Quote Link to comment
AJC Team Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Since we live in a suburb of a large city, we have 472 caches within a 5 mile radius of our home coordinates. Of those we've only found about 50, so there's a lot of work to be done. Quote Link to comment
+marc_54140 Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Total Active Caches: 10 miles: 344 20 miles: 917 50 miles: 2720 Ones I've Not Found: 10 miles: 0 20 miles: 15 50 miles: 1112 And you KNOW most of those beyond 50 miles are in the Appleton area, correct? Closest 500 caches (within 12 miles) are 343 trads, 46 multis, and 111 puzzles. Welcome to the Kingdom of Selzzup! Quote Link to comment
+FunnyNose Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 (edited) Caches I have not found: 0 --Less than 5 miles 99 --Less than 10 miles 454 --Less than 15 miles 1389 --Less than 25 miles 2754 --Less than 50 miles 3687 --Less than 75 miles Caches I have found: 209 --Less than 5 miles 888 --Less than 10 miles 1556 --Less than 15 miles 2540 --Less than 25 miles 3525 --Less than 50 miles 3864 --Less than 75 miles 419 --More than 1000 miles 117 --More than 3000 miles 83 --More than 6000 miles 55 --More than 8000 miles Edited January 14, 2008 by FunnyNose Quote Link to comment
+MaplessInSeattle Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 0 -- 5 miles I'm assuming these are your "Not Founds" Did you check today btw? Look closely at southcenter area Quote Link to comment
+Mike and Mitya Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 5 Mi- 59 10 mi- 242 20 Mi- 491 50 Mi- 816 Quote Link to comment
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