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http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=9   
9= Del
35= North Dakota 

 

All caches Delaware - number of caches total is at the top

the number doesn't match right now, one more in North Dakota

 

I'm naturally more interested in Florida (state id = 10) with 37485 caches.

There were 1104 when I pulled my first PQs.

Took 2 queries to get the whole state. 500 cache limit on PQs then, and not grabbing those i'd found.

If I moved to Delaware or North Dakota, I'd be once again able to get the whole state with 2 queries ;-).

Edited by Isonzo Karst
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Cool

 

What are the numbers for the rest of the states?

Since you asked these are approximations to the nearest 1,000, not the actual number:

 

AL-14K

AK-5K

AZ-27K

AR-12K

CA-111K (most)

CO-23K

CT-6K

FL-37K

GA-15K

HI-2K (least)

ID-17K

IL-27K

IN-18K

IA-16K

KS-10K

KY-10K

LA-6K

ME-8K

MD-9K

MA-11K

MI-30K

MN-24K

MS-7K

MO-10K

MT-5K (surprising that ID has 17K and only 5K in MT)

NE-7K

NV-16K

NH-8K

NJ-13K

NM-12K

NY-26K

NC-22K

OH-26K

OK-11K

OR-31K (a lot for this population, but it is where it all began.)

PA-30K

RI-2K

SC-7K

SD-9K

TN-15K

TX-56K

UT-26K

VT-5K

VA-14K

WA-28K

WV-23K

WY-5K

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Cool

 

What are the numbers for the rest of the states?

Since you asked these are approximations to the nearest 1,000, not the actual number:

 

AL-14K

AK-5K

AZ-27K

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Sorry I wasn't clear. I was talking about the number for each state in this search....

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=9

Yep, that is a completely different thing. Heh.

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Cool

 

What are the numbers for the rest of the states?

Since you asked these are approximations to the nearest 1,000, not the actual number:

 

AL-14K

AK-5K

AZ-27K

*** clipped ***

Sorry I wasn't clear. I was talking about the number for each state in this search....

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=9

Yep, that is a completely different thing. Heh.

Thanks for the list though. It's interesting to look at the stats.

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Here we go a full list. Just replace the ## at the end with and state number below.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=##  

 

60. Alabama

2. Alaska

3. Arizona

4. Arkansas

5. California

6. Colorado

7. Connecticut

8. District of Columbia

9. Delaware

10. Florida

11. Georgia

12. Hawaii

13. Idaho

14. Illinois

15. Indiana

16. Iowa

17. Kansas

18. Kentucky

19. Louisiana

20. Maine

21. Maryland

23. Massachusetts

23. Michigan

24. Minnesota

25. Mississippi

26. Missouri

27. Montana

28. Nebraska

29. Nevada

30. New Hampshire

31. New Jersey

32. New Mexico

33. New York

34. North Carolina

35. North Dakota

36. Ohio

37. Oklahoma

38. Oregon

39. Pennsylvania

40. Rhode Island

41. South Carolina

42. South Dakota

43. Tennessee

44. Texas

45. Utah

46. Vermont

47. Virginia

48. Washington

49. West Virginia

50. Wisconsin

51. Wyoming

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Sorry I wasn't clear. I was talking about the number for each state in this search....

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=9

 

I misunderstood earlier. I've had coffee now. :) Alabama is 60.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=60

 

Alabama: the finest of the 60 states. (Wait, what?)

 

I'm sure there's a reason why Ukraine is the 1st state, Australian states and territories are in 52-59, and Alabama is 60th, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it might be.

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Hey! I got ONE geocache in North Dakota so only 2159 more to go! :P

I've looked at maps around the country and seen some areas that are very sparse with caches. It would be difficult to have a caching addiction and live there!

 

It's been awhile since I checked but a year or so ago there were about twenty countries/territories which had no caches at all and about 60 that had 5 caches or less. The least dense country I ever visit was Ethiopia, which at the time, had only 4 caches. One of them was about a mile away from where I was staying due to some traveling snafu I was never able to search for it but I was within 1000' of it three times.

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thanks for the URL links but there is one problem. Provinces arent states. <_<

 

We can solve this problem by annexing Canada. :ph34r: Hey, Roman would be happy, since he seemed to have a lot of commentary, and all on one "side", of our recent Presidential elections in his closed thread.

 

I missed the earlier posts, but yeah, they can search by Province with one extra step.

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thanks for the URL links but there is one problem. Provinces arent states. <_<

 

We can solve this problem by annexing Canada. ...

Well it is the 200th anniversary of the last time we had hostilities. Lets try to keep it that way! I suspect the end result would be a little different a second time around. We will keep sending you oil, uranium, lumber, etc. and you keep playing nice. Ok, are we all in agreement? Good.

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California at this moment is 111325 excluding Events.

Which makes sense as the most populous state...but a high percentage of Platinum members live in California and we all know for every cache you hide as a Platinum member, a lackey must also hide a cache in your state.

Last time I saw a Lackey in my state was Sacto's GeoWoodstock.

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thanks for the URL links but there is one problem. Provinces arent states. <_<

 

And Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia use the official title of Commonwealth rather than State. Guess it is better to be called a state, though not properly, and have a search function though. ;):)

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Cool

 

What are the numbers for the rest of the states?

Since you asked these are approximations to the nearest 1,000, not the actual number:

 

AL-14K

AK-5K

AZ-27K

AR-12K

CA-111K (most)

CO-23K

CT-6K

FL-37K

GA-15K

HI-2K (least)

ID-17K

IL-27K

IN-18K

IA-16K

KS-10K

KY-10K

LA-6K

ME-8K

MD-9K

MA-11K

MI-30K

MN-24K

MS-7K

MO-10K

MT-5K (surprising that ID has 17K and only 5K in MT)

NE-7K

NV-16K

NH-8K

NJ-13K

NM-12K

NY-26K

NC-22K

OH-26K

OK-11K

OR-31K (a lot for this population, but it is where it all began.)

PA-30K

RI-2K

SC-7K

SD-9K

TN-15K

TX-56K

UT-26K

VT-5K

VA-14K

WA-28K

WV-23K

WY-5K

 

 

Comparing land size to number of caches may have some correlations.

Two of the top three in land mass have the top two in cache counts.

CA and Texas also have the highest populations.

List of states by population

Then Rhode Island has the fewest caches, the smallest population and the smallest land mass.

 

Rank State Name Area (Sq Miles)

1 Alaska 587,878

2 Texas 266,874

3 California 158,648

4 Montana 147,047

5 New Mexico 121,599

6 Arizona 114,007

7 Nevada 110,567

8 Colorado 104,100

9 Wyoming 97,818

10 Oregon 97,052

11 Utah 84,905

12 Minnesota 84,397

13 Idaho 83,574

14 Kansas 82,282

15 Nebraska 77,359

16 South Dakota 77,122

17 North Dakota 70,704

18 Oklahoma 69,903

19 Missouri 69,709

20 Washington 68,126

21 Florida 58,681

22 Michigan 58,513

23 Georgia 58,390

24 Illinois 56,343

25 Iowa 56,276

26 Wisconsin 56,145

27 Arkansas 53,183

28 North Carolina 52,672

29 Alabama 51,718

30 New York 49,112

31 Louisiana 47,720

32 Mississippi 47,695

33 Pennsylvania 45,310

34 Tennessee 42,146

35 Ohio 41,328

36 Virginia 40,598

37 Kentucky 40,411

38 Indiana 36,185

39 Maine 33,128

40 South Carolina 31,117

41 West Virginia 24,231

42 Maryland 10,455

43 Vermont 9,615

44 New Hampshire 9,283

45 Massachusetts 8,262

46 New Jersey 7,790

47 Hawaii 6,459

48 Connecticut 5,006

49 Delaware 2,026

50 Rhode Island 1,213

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Then Rhode Island has the fewest caches, the smallest population and the smallest land mass.

 

 

Rhode Island is not the least populated state. That honor goes to Wyoming. RI is #43.

 

And on last check, RI had the highest cache density (caches/square mile) of the 50 states.

 

And..

 

Hawaii and Delaware both have fewer caches:

 

HI - 1791

DE - 2171

 

So one out of three ain't bad.

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It seems like the northeast states have few caches despite their population. NY only 13k caches?

 

Glad to see my home state fares well with 27k hides.

 

I just checked and New York has 25921 caches. That's a lot more than 13K but there are still several smaller, less populated states with more. That's probably because power trails haven't become rampant (the closest I can find to a P/T is a series of 40/50 caches in central NY).

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