Cache Density Champion - I think it's Stockton, California

October 19, 2003

Using a 100 mile radius as a standard, I did a little searching around and I think Stockton, California is the most cache dense, with 3,373 caches within 100 miles. of zip code 95201, as of October 19th, 2003.

If you can find a more dense 100 mile radius, please post it here.

October 19, 2003

The Tampa Bay and Orlando areas have a lot of caches in them so I did a search for Lakeland, Florida (about 1/2 way between Tampa and Orlando). There were 51 pages of 20 and 1 page with 1 cache within 100 miles. So while we're not as densely surrounded with caches as Stockton, Cali, we have almost 1,300 caches in the area.

Now if I could find more time and had money for gas, I'd set out to get every one of them.

5.7k · October 19, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Peanuthead:
Using a 100 mile radius as a standard, I did a little searching around and I think Stockton, California is the most cache dense, with 3,373 caches within 100 miles. of zip code 95201, as of October 19th, 2003.

If you can find a more dense 100 mile radius, please post it here.

It's no coicidence that Ron Streeter, the father of Northern California caching, lives in Stockton.

--Marky

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5.7k · October 19, 2003

To more accurately gauge a zipcode's density, you really should pick a smaller radius. Let's try 5 miles. My zip, 95118, has 147 caches within 5 miles of it. 95201, in comparison, has only 12.

(The main Hide and Seek page lets you adjust the search radius.)

--Marky

...Be nice to your fellow geocachers, they might be Hemlock...

October 19, 2003

182 caches within 5 miles of 91360.

Clicky

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October 19, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Peanuthead:
Using a 100 mile radius as a standard, I did a little searching around and I think Stockton, California is the most cache dense, with 3,373 caches within 100 miles. of zip code 95201, as of October 19th, 2003.

That's less than one for every 9 square miles. There's room for lots more!

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

October 19, 2003

Wow...147 caches within a 5 mile radius, you must be tripping over caches out there.

From my zip code, I came up with 35 caches within a 5 mile radius. Most of them were mine. Going out to a 100 mile radius brings up 1,354 caches.

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1.7k · October 19, 2003

Wow! Try living in a cache desert . Nearest cache 6.6m. 10m radius: 3, 100m radius: 520.

I burn to cache!

October 19, 2003

Only 289 in the entire state of Alaska.

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October 19, 2003

OK how does 14 in a 90 mile radius grab you

October 19, 2003

My daughter lives in Kuwait, she has 1

1.6k · October 19, 2003

This begs a question, in that with this many caches, can there really be that many GOOD sites to place them? Would we be better off as a game if we tried to set up fewer new caches and refined the ones that are there?

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38.2k · October 20, 2003

2,130 caches within 100 miles of my zipcode (07405), but about 1/4 of that is ocean, so things are a actually a lot denser.

Other density numbers:

34 within 5 miles.

79 within 10 miles.

220 within 20 miles.

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2.1k · October 20, 2003

My cache density for 01462 (north central Massachusetts) is:

5 miles: 6

20 miles: 138

100 miles:1556

That's going into New Hampshire and Vermont as well and there are not very many in either one of those states, especially Vermont. I'm sure if I went a little south towards Rhode Island or Connecticut, that the numbers would pick up more.

Brian

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My Stats

Found: 70

Hidden: 2

October 20, 2003

Where I live there are:

240 caches within a 100 mile radius

8 caches within a 5 mile radius

40 caches within a 20 mile radius (unfortunately, due to Hurricane Isabel about 10 of them are out of service)

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October 20, 2003

142 within a 10 mile radius of 30345 (NE Atlanta). Not exactly a contender but not bad!

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Scott Johnson (ScottJ)

October 20, 2003

10 mile - 28 caches

50 mile - 523 caches

100 mile - 1837 caches

Based on 17013 Carlisle, PA

October 20, 2003

Since 10 miles is a link I have setup, I hit that and got only 6, then realized it was filtered for my finds!

5 miles - 30

10 miles - 56

50 miles - 717

100 miles - 1,849!

If you check cache density you'll see Connecticut has moved up from 6th to 5th in the US for caches per square area. Last spring there were over 200, come summer we broke 300, now there are over 400!

Enjoy,

Randy

1.6k · October 20, 2003

Wow, in a five mile radius my area has 2, count em TWO caches. Wow that is pathetic. The closest one being 4.6 miles, but more like 10 if going by road. A grand total of 87 caches within a 20 mile radius. And sadly, I live in a moderately wooded area of Western PA. Well, I'll make sure that changes once I start hiding and finding caches, hopefully, my first 5 caches that I place will all be seed caches.

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2.1k · October 20, 2003

39 caches in 5 miles of 02135 (Western side of Boston). And I still haven't found them all yet! (one is currently unavailable and the other one is quite a ways out of my normal travels).

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October 20, 2003

26 w/5 miles

43 w/10 miles

2550 w/100 miles 90505

I shouls mention that we have the pacific ocean here on this penn that occupies about 1/2 that 100 mile radius.

1.3k · October 20, 2003

From Seattle (98102):

2052 within 100 miles.

Not to shabby for the hometown of Groundspeak.

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October 20, 2003

From Memphis (38002)

273 within 100 miles

I like caches just as much as the next guy, but I hope we don't get too dense that we are just tripping over them. I guess its just that I'm getting a little tired of Micros.

Been there... Done that...

October 20, 2003

Beaverton,

Home of yesturdays Beaverton Cache Machine

97008

1480 @100

225 10

7 1

97005 Also Beaverton

226 10

8 1

Going West Aloha 97006

203 10

8 1

Hillsboro 97124 (Near the Airport)

99 10

2 1

Hillsboro 97123

113 10

1 1

Clearly at 10 miles, these zip codes overlap.

4.8k · October 20, 2003

14 in a five mile radius. Man, I better get busy

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. The rest go geocaching.

October 20, 2003

Quincy Washington

5 miles-2

20 miles-32

50 miles-246

100 miles-692

Included within the 50 mile circle is 34 we planted.

I have heard of stats based on difficulty and time since a find, anyone heard of one based to include density?

Cachin's a bit sweeter when you've got an Isha!

October 20, 2003

32703-nw orlando

5 miles-8

10 miles-25

100 miles-1179

i'd better go fill up the truck!!!

never lost....just misplaced

5.7k · October 20, 2003

95118 San Jose

5 miles: 145 (they're disappearing?)

10 miles: 323

20 miles: 627

50 miles: 1630

100 miles: 2860

--Marky

...Be nice to your fellow geocachers, they might be Hemlock...

October 20, 2003

95829 South Sacramento

5 miles: 26

10 miles: 129

20 miles: 354

50 miles: 802

100 miles: 3271

50 miles plus includes some of the Stockton area.

3.9k · October 21, 2003

NY 11763

Caches / Miles

1699 / 100

519 / 50

124 / 20

27 / 5

NY 10001

2106 / 100

991 / 50

227 / 20

44 / 5

1/3 of the area is water

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Because now I am Lost.

October 21, 2003

It looks like Thousand Oaks (91360) is the 5 mile leader so far with 183. Anyone have a more cache-rich area?

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October 21, 2003

Sunrise Fl 33322

5 miles 3

20 miles 44

50 miles 110

100 miles 251

work less cache more

Objets

9.4k · October 21, 2003

Not even close. I only have 13 within 5 miles of 87114. It gets better with 47 caches at 10 miles and 131 at 20 miles.

The bad news is that I only have 9 unfound caches within 10 miles of my home coordinates.

Took sun from sky, left world in eternal darkness

March 13, 2004

Five months after I first posted this thread, I just did a quick check again,

and I believe the heaviest Cache Density for a 100 mile radius is still,

Stockton, California !!

If you can find a heavier cache density for a 100 mile radius, please post it here.

Edited March 13, 2004 by Peanuthead

March 14, 2004

Aurora, CO:

5 miles - 25

50 miles - 454

100 miles - 851

Aurora can't hold a candle to Stockton!

March 14, 2004

I have 2 within 5 miles of my house, both of which are mine.

EDIT: Actually there are 3 all of them are mine

Edited March 14, 2004 by wildearth2001

March 14, 2004

6 within 5 miles

10 within 7 miles

21 within 20 miles

180 within 50 miles

I also live within 10 miles of the ocean so a large edge of these radiuses is void of caches.

I drove 25 miles to get one today.

March 14, 2004

Five months after I first posted this thread, I just did a quick check again,
and I believe the heaviest Cache Density for a 100 mile radius is still,

Stockton, California !!

If you can find a heavier cache density for a 100 mile radius, please post it here.

100 mile radius from area code 92880 - 3945!

The winner is: Corona, CA.

1.3k · March 14, 2004

60 in 5 miles here in Santa Barbara, CAlifornia

March 14, 2004

Blind Avocado Said, "100 mile radius from area code 92880 - 3945! The winner is Corona, CA."

I should have been more clear in my new post. Stockton, CA now has 4,030, and Corona, CA has 3,944. Stockton is still the current champion. The numbers in the first few posts on this thread are from several months ago.

If you want Corona to be champ, I guess you would have to find the sweet spot where caches would be within 100 miles of Corona but not Stockton, and plant 100 caches there.

6.5k · March 14, 2004

Ok Stockton can have the West Coast and National titles. I think the East Coast title is still Nashville TN37219

5 miles- 148

20 miles- 614

50 miles- 863

100 miles 1136

I can't wait to go there! That trip will be about the numbers.

March 14, 2004

Here I was all set to point out Nashville, TN, but their 100 mile count is 'only' 1142. I would think they might have a record for the 5 mile radius, though. Searching from zip 37201, I came up with the following:

100 miles - 1142 or .036 per square mile

50 miles - 866 or .11 per square mile

20 miles - 615 or .49 per square mile

10 miles - 315 or 1 per square mile

5 miles - 146 or 2 per square mile

(Area = pi x radius squared)

Nashville is where fullct found 238 caches in 24 hours, though.

In contrast, my zip (40175) has 1341 within 100 miles, but only 11 within 5 miles

March 14, 2004

Whoops, someone beat me to Nashville while I was looking up numbers. I guess I'll have to settle for the second finders prize.

March 14, 2004

No where near being a contender, however since others were talking about their low cache density, I thought I would throw this in.

Where I live

Prospect, Ohio 43342

5 miles = 2

10 miles = 8

20 miles = 32

50 miles = 210

100 miles = 777

Figured as of March 14, 2004 6:23est

March 15, 2004

Cincinnati, OH 45231

Miles: Caches

5: 45

10: 120

20: 272

50: 455

100: 1615 (which has dropped since last fall)

1.8k · March 15, 2004

Here I was all set to point out Nashville, TN, but their 100 mile count is 'only' 1142. I would think they might have a record for the 5 mile radius, though. Searching from zip 37201, I came up with the following:

20 miles - 615 or .49 per square mile

10 miles - 315 or 1 per square mile

5 miles - 146 or 2 per square mile

If you're running numbers, Thousand Oaks, CA (91360) is a good bet too...

100 miles - 2907

50 miles - 1489

20 miles - 739

10 miles - 470

5 miles - 265

24.7k · March 15, 2004

Pocatello Idaho as of now:

5 miles = 64

100 = 425

Edited March 15, 2004 by Renegade Knight

3.1k · March 15, 2004

Using a 100 mile radius as a standard, I did a little searching around and I think Stockton, California is the most cache dense, with 3,373 caches within 100 miles. of zip code 95201, as of October 19th, 2003. If you can find a more dense 100 mile radius, please post it here.

I used my old zip in San Jose and came up with 3360 so it's close to Stockton. Man I need to visit the old neighborhood.

March 15, 2004

95020 - Gilroy CA

5 Miles = 8

10 Miles = 38

25 Miles = 304

100 Miles = 2945

5.3k · March 16, 2004

From 94903

100 miles = 3456 (30% 0f the is the pacific ocean

10 miles = 129

1 mile = 5

Cache Density Champion - I think it's Stockton, California

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