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[4wheelin_fool]

505, south Jersey about 20 miles from the OP.

[+Castle Mischief]

Your pocket query has been modified and currently results in 44 caches.

 

Middle-ish northern Alabama.

 

11 are mine.

[earthcurrent]

Central WI:

 

58 within 10 miles with 13 unfound.

 

Such laziness.

 

Need to get the caching partner out and about to pick those up once the mosquitoes and flies start to die down in the marshlands again.

Edited August 23, 2010 by earthcurrent

[+ShowStop]

1599 caches

[+DanOCan]

From home? 44. I own 5 of them and need to find four others.

 

From work? A PQ showed 1000 within 10.1km. The advanced search feature gave me 1320 within a 16km radius. Wow, I didn't expect there to be that many.

[+GrateBear]

1015 from current home

1022 from soon to be new home a few miles away

1047 from work, which is only a few miles from the new home

 

And, the area seems to avg about 5 new ones each week.

[+TH 1969]

Thanks! Your pocket query has been saved and currently results in 100 caches.

 

Rural SW Nova Scotia, water on one side of me. Of the 100, there are 12 that I haven't found or own.

 

Back in the old days, I used to get caches from Grand Manan, NB on my closest to home pages.

[+ihorn]

Centered in Folsom, California (where my daughter lives, East of Sacramento) 1000 w/in 7.8 miles

 

Are you sure those are geocaches, and not escape care packages

[+roziecakes]

From my home coordinates there are 267 caches within 10 miles. If I use Eugene (the largest town near us), that number increases significantly.

 

However, I've found almost all of the 267, so I have to drive a little to get a nearby cache.

[aniyn]

I get 40. 11 are mine.

[+GeoGeeBee]

211 within 10 miles of my house. But if I center the search on my office, it goes up to 614. (My office is 8.2 miles from my house.)

[+wimseyguy]

Raleigh NC= 1021 active caches within 10 miles

[+Lost Our Marbles LOM]

1306 for me (San Jose) with the closest one being 414ft away. It is still unfound

 

Just did my office and the number jumps to only 1,710.

Edited August 23, 2010 by Lost Our Marbles LOM

[+supertbone]

I max out at 1000 at 8.6 miles. In that 8.6 miles are a few natural barriers (a large lake, a large mountain, and a National Monument) that limit the cache saturation.

 

Springville, UT maxes out at 1000 in 6.4 miles.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22416370@N04/4921302936

Edited August 23, 2010 by supertbone

[+JL_HSTRE]

341 within 10 miles of me.

 

The Atlantic Ocean is about 5 miles easy of me, plus the wide intracoastal waterway and a wide river through the city I live in.

 

On the plus side, there is a state park entrance about 15 miles from me and the park contains 200+ caches. I'm at 276 and haven't cached there yet.

[+Hoosier Ranger]

918 caches (of which 19 are mine) within 10 miles of my home in Katy, TX. There may be one more tomorrow if my latest hide is approved.

[Mr.Yuck]

Proof that I'm a cache snob radical, and almost no one uses the ignore list feature. If I do a PQ, it's going to drop well over 100 caches at 10 miles. But not a problem, it didn't take long at all to do manually with a sock puppet account, and the closest cache to my home coordinates (.35 miles) as the center. There are 618 caches within the 10 mile radius.

[+joukkusisu]

Total Records: 1276 - Page: 1 of 64

[Andronicus]

Anyone do the math to figure out what the theoretical maximum is?

I would presume it would be +10,000 (EC and Virts don't count for saturation).

This assumes one at every .1 miles from the center.

I did some math and came up with 9 073.57

 

Area of a 10mile radius circle

=pi*r^2

=314.16sqMiles

Now, according to this site, the Volume Fraction of closely packed circles in a hxagonal pattern is 0.9069.

So area in you 10 mile circle that is filled with 0.1 mile "cache circles" is

=314.16sqMiels*0.9069

=284.91sqMiles

 

Area of a 0.1mile "cache" circle

=pi*r^2

=0.0314

 

divide the two areas

=284.91/0.0314

=9 073.57

 

36,275?

 

Most dense situation is (if I'm not wrong) using equilateral triangles of 0.1 size. Each cache at the left bottom vertex needs two of the triangles to teselate the whole world.

 

Area of 1 triangle = 0.05 * sqrt(0.1^2 - ((0.1)/2)^2) / 2 = 0.05*0.1*sqrt(3)/2

 

n = pi*r^2 / (0.05 * 0.1 * sqrt(3)) = 36,275

 

A lot of caches!

 

Edited: Oooops! One missing /2 ...

 

Area = 0.05*(0.1*sqrt(3)/2)/2

 

n = pi*r^2 / (0.05 * 0.1 * sqrt(3)/2) = 72,551 ... Really? where am I wrong?

 

Edited again (blonde day!)

 

Area = 0.1 * (0.1*sqrt(3)/2)/2

 

n = pi*r^2 / (0.1 * 0.1 * sqrt(3)/2) = 36,275

 

my first number was correct even if the formulas were copied incorrectly.

 

I see what I did wrong. I used 0.1 miles for the radius of each cache "Circle". The correct value should be .05 miles.

 

So

((pi*R^2)*Volume Fraction)/(pi*r^2)

R=radius of area of interest (10 miles)

r= radius of proximity circle (0.10 miles/2)

=((pi*10^2)*0.9069)/(pi*0.05^2)

=36276

 

Using my meathod, I now get 36276. Of course this is approximate as you could have a fraction of a cache circle inside the 10 mile circle, and the cache be outside. My calculation will include the fraction of the circle that is inside the 10 mile circle when the cache is not inside. And transversly, if a fraction of the cache circle is outside the 10 mile circle, but the cache is inside, my calculation will not include the fraction that is outside.

 

So the moral of the story is that no one has anything close to a saturated area.

Edited August 23, 2010 by Andronicus

[+Chokecherry]

Decided to see how many were within 10 miles of work too. Only 11 caches within 10 miles of work.

[+Pauliecoon]

Home: 17 (79316)

Work: 182 (79412)

[+WRITE SHOP ROBERT]

905

 

Instead of a PQ, do the advance seek page, plug in your address and choose the limit of 10 miles.

That method gets me this...

 

Total Records: 1237

[+TheGrey]

I have 1,000 within 6.7 miles of my house. There are 1,981 within 10 miles.

 

Cool for finding caches, but it makes hiding them near impossible.

Edited August 23, 2010 by TheGrey

[sleeplessinsandiego]

2,813 for me. I live in Spring Valley East of San Diego CA.

[+ShortyBond]

Mine only resulted in 100 caches, even. But i live in rural Texas. Haha!

[+ShortyBond]

I have 1,000 within 6.7 miles of my house. There are 1,981 within 10 miles.

 

Cool for finding caches, but it makes hiding them near impossible.

 

Phew, i imagine!! I can't imagine how they can do that without putting them in people's yards! Haha!

 

I've been caching since Feb. and am still at only around 600. I would still be stuck in a ten mile radius of my house that way!

[+deercreekth]

230

 

It turns out that I haven't found 76 of them. I thought the closest unfound were mostly puzzles and ones I've given up on or don't want to find. Looks like there are a few I just haven't gone after yet.

[+JB10-4]

18

 

[+cycler48]

738

[+BlueMoth]

From my home coordinates, one mile west of downtown Portland, Oregon, I get 2126 using the advancce seek page. When I ran a pq I knew it would be well over 1000.

 

21 are mine. 11 micros, 3 small and 7 regular. Yes, you can hide an ammo can in the city.

 

We get a pretty good mix of cache types in Portland proper. We have Forest Park, over 5,000 acres whose edge is about 1 1/2 miles west of downtown. Many, many regular parks too. There is also the Willamette and Columbia river banks and various wetlands in which to hide larger caches. There is always something for everyone.

[+brslk]

905

 

Instead of a PQ, do the advance seek page, plug in your address and choose the limit of 10 miles.

 

Using this method it shows me a little over 4000

[+Super Naitos]

Interesting.

 

Some of you have a lot, though I guess these LPF (?) must be a bit monotonous.

 

I have 44 within 10 miles, 24 of them are mine! (Small town, Japan)

If I change to 100 miles I am lucky and have nearly 2400 , and as I have only found 117 so far that should keep me going for a while....

[+Ambrosia]

I live in the very center of Washington State.

 

450 caches within 10 miles of my home. 20 of them are mine/immediate family.

[+GeoBroke]

1495 within 10 miles of my house!

[I!]

375

[+redcenterdazza]

10 mile = 33 caches

100 mile = 73 caches

300 mile = 117 caches.

 

we have to drive a long way for caches here in the middle of Australia!

[+FancoverFive]

639, and I'm not even in America!

Edited August 25, 2010 by FancoverFive

[Andronicus]

905

 

Instead of a PQ, do the advance seek page, plug in your address and choose the limit of 10 miles.

 

Using this method it shows me a little over 4000

Realy? I didn' think Edmonton was that much more saturated than Calgary? I did a surch from near the University and got 1478

Edited August 25, 2010 by Andronicus

[+Alkhalikoi]

I've got 447 within 5 miles -- how to you trick the pocket query to give you more than 500? {ignore that, decided to use my reading comprehension skills, instead} -- 1565.

 

(Of course, I live just a few miles Alamogul, so that helps, no doubt).

Edited August 26, 2010 by Alkhalikoi

[+Happy Bubbles]

Three.

[+Chrysalides]

957 from home, includes a good chunk of the Bay and private cattle grazing land.

1696 from office (some overlap with home).

859 from the other office. No overlap.

[+brslk]

905

 

Instead of a PQ, do the advance seek page, plug in your address and choose the limit of 10 miles.

 

Using this method it shows me a little over 4000

Realy? I didn' think Edmonton was that much more saturated than Calgary? I did a surch from near the University and got 1478

 

I live about a block away from the dead center of the city. Still... pretty sure I screwed something up though. Seems rather high to me.

[+Borst68]

Lockport, NY 155

[Andronicus]

905

 

Instead of a PQ, do the advance seek page, plug in your address and choose the limit of 10 miles.

 

Using this method it shows me a little over 4000

Realy? I didn' think Edmonton was that much more saturated than Calgary? I did a surch from near the University and got 1478

 

I live about a block away from the dead center of the city. Still... pretty sure I screwed something up though. Seems rather high to me.

I just did a search from where google maps sais the center of Edmonton is; 1622

[+azothtengu]

Seems as though Southern Oregon has quite a few caches though most are pretty small, we do have a wide range of places to hide them.

 

House 441

Work 753

[+jerpete]

648

[+raceon4]

223

[+cterral]

There are 135 within a 10 mile radius of my home in Claremore OK

[+hobgoblinkiteflier]

I'm in the central belt of Scotland (halfway between the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh) and my total is 277.

 

12 are mine and I've found 167.

[+Machuco]

Thanks! Your pocket query has been modified and currently results in 881 caches.